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- Synchronet v3.10 Windows NT/2000/XP Instructions
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- Note
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- Windows 2000 is actually Windows NT 5 (renamed for marketing reasons), not
- to be confused with Windows Millennium Edition (the successor to Windows 98).
- Windows XP is actually Windows NT 5.1 (renamed for marketing reasons).
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- Issues
- ~~~~~~
- 1. Your C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG.NT file should NOT include Microsoft's
- ANSI.SYS if you want DOS I/O Interception to function properly (required
- for 16-bit XSDK/WWIV programs, DOS shell, viewing zip files, etc.).
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- 2. Add C:\SBBS\EXEC\SVDMANSI to the end of your C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT
- to use the Synchronet Virtual DOS Machine ANSI driver (originally created
- as a replacement for OS/2's ANSI driver, but it functions as an ANSI.SYS
- replacement for Windows NT just as well - thanks again Steve!).
- Use of this driver is *optional*.
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- 3. Use ;SHELL instead of ;DOS to remotely shell to the Windows NT 32-bit
- command interpreter (cmd.exe), which has more functional I/O interception.
- The backspace key does not work correctly however (watch those typos!).
- The ;DOS command will shell to the 16-bit command interpreter (command.com)
- which has numerous I/O interception issues on NT.
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- 4. If you need more conventional memory for your external DOS programs and
- do not need DPMI support, remove (or REM-out) the DOSX line of your
- C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. This will give you about 40K additional
- conventional memory for your external DOS programs.
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- Debugging
- ~~~~~~~~~
- If you have any problems with programs that worked under Windows 95/98,
- but aren't under NT/2000: find the sbbsexec#.log (where # is the node
- number) that was generated after the program in question was run and
- send it to me for debugging purposes. The sbbsexec#.log files are created
- in the current directory at the time the program is run. This will
- usually be either the Synchronet EXEC directory or the startup directory
- for an online external program (e.g. C:\SBBS\XTRN\DOORNAME).
- As for v3.10, these files are only created with the DEBUG BUILD of
- SBBSEXEC.DLL (which you probaby don't have).
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