On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:   
      
      
   -> no, i use SIO and Vmodem with both real serial ports and virtual   
   -> ports... with both DOS and native OS/2 programs...   
      
    JK> Must work on ECS. But on Warp4, Vmodem gave me some dll error   
    JK> message and failed to run.  I have a Warp4 test partion, maybe I   
    JK> can try again when I get curious about it.   
      
   which SIO? was it using a cracked registration? there are protections built in   
   to try to thwart cracks...   
      
   -> true... in many cases, folks have been spolied by the install and go   
   -> stuff... few really understand how it all works these days :/   
      
    JK> The 32-bit, and now, 64-bit programming models are easier to work   
    JK> with, no doubt.  But if you never experience the 16-bit DOS pain,   
    JK> you're not a real programmer. :-)   
      
   i still code for 16bit stuffs... however, converting things to FPC and going   
   native removes a huge amount of those old restrictions ;) O:)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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