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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Using 3 modems on one machine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.231532.750@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <C18BDy.BFK@sugar.neosoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:15:32 GMT
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- In article <C18BDy.BFK@sugar.neosoft.com> chadb@NeoSoft.com (Chad A Brockman) writes:
- > I'm interested in setting up 3 9600 baud modems on 1 os/2 machine.
- > Question 1: Is there an os/2 comm. program that I can load 3 times
- > without conflicts. I tried loading 2 copies of PMcomm and they
- > seemed to w/ each other.
-
- Most can, actually. TalkThru (Software Corp. of America) is but one
- example.
-
- > Question 2: Has anyone else out there tried this?? Am I going to be
- > able to receive a file into each modem @ the same time w/ out
- > loosing chars.
-
- If the communications software is OS/2-based, and you use buffered
- UARTs, it will probably work just fine.
-
- OS/2 handles multiline BBSes just fine, and this effort is similar.
-
- > Question 3: I really didn't want to set up a bbs to do this. Am I
- > just fooling myself??
-
- No -- go ahead and give it a try.
-
- (With PMComm, I would suggest making two copies of the program -- or
- at least the configuration file(s). That could be the problem.)
-
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