Hello, All...

I've moved to a new machine running WinXP, and have run into a sporadic problem
with Bink (BT/Win32 2.60XE/Gamma-6(ntcomm) Bcc32i-i386/unreg.). Every so often,
Bink will simply hang as it exits. The screen has moved up a line, so I think Bink was trying to exit; but it never gets to the next line in the .CMD file.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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Hello, Jerry.

On 20 May 04 at 20:15, Jerry Schwartz wrote to All:

I've moved to a new machine running WinXP, and have run into a
sporadic problem with Bink (BT/Win32 2.60XE/Gamma-6(ntcomm) Bcc32i-i386/unreg.). Every so often, Bink will simply hang as it
exits. The screen has moved up a line, so I think Bink was trying to
exit; but it never gets to the next line in the .CMD file.

What kind of FOSSIL driver are you using?

Later,
Sean

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Hello, Sean...

May 21, 2004 at 17:10, Sean Dennis wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

I've moved to a new machine running WinXP, and have run into a
sporadic problem with Bink (BT/Win32 2.60XE/Gamma-6(ntcomm)
Bcc32i-i386/unreg.). Every so often, Bink will simply hang as it
exits. The screen has moved up a line, so I think Bink was trying to
exit; but it never gets to the next line in the .CMD file.

What kind of FOSSIL driver are you using?

NTFOSS

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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Hello, Jerry.

On 24 May 04 at 18:23, Jerry Schwartz wrote to Sean Dennis:

NTFOSS

If you can, try running COM/IP with ADF-it's what I used with BT and it worked fine. YMMV, of course. :)

Later,
Sean

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Hello Sean.

25 May 04 14:14, you wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

NTFOSS

If you can, try running COM/IP with ADF-it's what I used with BT and it worked fine. YMMV, of course. :)

Since XP is based on NT, Winfossil for NT works very well with Com/IP. It's available here at http://madhsefiles.ods.org/fossil/wntfos10.rar


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Hi Mike..

NTFOSS

If you can, try running COM/IP with ADF-it's what
I used with BT and it
worked fine. YMMV, of course. :)

Since XP is based on NT, Winfossil for NT works very
well with Com/IP. It's available here at http://madhsefiles.ods.org/fossil/wntfos10.rar

One of my Net members left me a box to try to get Bink and Com/IP and all working on WIN-XP. I got him up and running fine on WIN-ME and he's still up with that as critical-file patched, so far.

But try as I might, I cannot get Bink up with Com/IP and XP at all, no matter what fossil I try, including WinFossil for NT, NTFOSS or whatever. In this case
the box has a WinModem. I've yet to try this with a modem with a processor for
lack of time to play yet. I have a feeling that it may be related to the WinModem issue. In this XP box I have no trouble connecting it to the sample IP provider, nor with the use of ZOC for Windows which I have registered and works for him wonderfully with both ME and XP.

But no combo of COM ports or whatever will seemingly et Bink do anything with XP at all. So something is different about either my settings, tools,or whatever..

Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001 and N117C






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Hello Mike.

03 Jul 04 04:27, you wrote to me:

One of my Net members left me a box to try to get Bink and Com/IP and all working on WIN-XP. I got him up and running fine on WIN-ME and he's
still up with that as critical-file patched, so far.

But try as I might, I cannot get Bink up with Com/IP and XP at all, no matter what fossil I try, including WinFossil for NT, NTFOSS or whatever. In this case the box has a WinModem. I've yet to try this with a modem with a processor for lack of time to play yet. I have a feeling that it may be related to the WinModem issue.

I would suspect so. Generally, you use Winfossil and Com/IP to support DOS based mailers and BBS packages, and DOS based packages won't work with Winmodems. I'm pretty sure Winfossil won't recognize a Winmodem either. The programs simply won't see the modem at all, and so can't dial out with them. To
get it to work, you need a hardware modem.

Right now, I am running Bink/DOS 2.60 and Mystic/DOS 1.0.7.3 with Com/IP and Winfossil under Win NT, with a USR sportster 56k hardware modem. Win XP did not
change at all from NT in regard to how the com ports are assigned or how the TCP/IP stack works, so what works for NT should work for XP.

In this XP box I have no trouble connecting it to the sample IP provider, nor with the use of ZOC for Windows which I have registered and works for him wonderfully with both ME and XP.

The only solution would be to go to a W32 based BBS package, and even then (I'm
not sure) some may not support Winmodems. If they work though, you don't need a
fossil to run them. Some W32 BBS packages even come with telnet servers (Mystic, Synchronet, EleBBS for example), so you don't even need to run Com/IP with them. The problem is that you need fossil support to run DOS based door games, and then you're back to square one with the Winmodem problem.


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