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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Communication between DOS windows
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.221602.23807@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <92230.152601U55870@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:16:02 GMT
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- Please do not crosspost so widely in the future. These groups are
- busy enough without rampant crossposting.
-
- In article <92230.152601U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- > I am writing a bbs program that will run under ms-dos and will require a
- >special term program. To do this properly, it would seem easiest to hook
- >up two machines through the srial prot, and develop the bbs program on one,
- >the the term on the other. However, I do not have two machines at my disposal,
- >so I have a problem. I would like to use os2( I'm using it now anyways ) and
- >run the term program in one window, and the bbs program in another. I can
- >develop the software this way, and worry about adding the serial/phone routines
- >when the bbs software is completely written/debugged. Does anyone know of a
- >practical way to communicate between DOS windows in os2? I need to send
- >information bolth ways, obviously, just like a bbs and term. Thank you
- >for any help.
-
- Sure. Just make sure you have two available COM ports on your system.
- Then get a null modem cable to connect the ports together. Run the
- terminal program in one window using one COM port and run the BBS in
- another.
-
- Once you've discovered how easy this is, maybe you will write the BBS
- and/or terminal program for OS/2. :-)
-
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