-> JK> making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link.   
      
   -> on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement   
   -> comms package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...   
      
   In the sio2k docs, Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial   
   ports and IRQ 3.  I also read that the server and client code base was   
   merged as of fixpak 13.   
      
   So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k.  I use a 2 port serial PCI   
   card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and dies. So   
   much for sio2k.   
      
   Then I read that MCP2 has new serial drivers from IBM that support PCI   
   serial cards with IRQ sharing. So I tried MCP 2.  Also stalls and dies.   
   Must be true about the problem with IRQ 3.  And the MCP2 peer networking   
   fails when you disconnect a share and try to reconnect it. At least that   
   worked right on WARP 4.   
      
   There are some post MCP2 fixpaks, but google turns up no download sites   
   for them.  Apparently the only way to get them is from the ECS website,   
   and for that you must be a paying customer.   
      
   I hadn't looked at OS/2 since the early 1990s, and I was hoping it had   
   improved with age. But it's as frustrating now as it was then.   
      
   --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 250 Beta   
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