27 Mar 16 10:01, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:   
      
    RW> I would prefer something that is native to OS/2 as sharing a com port   
    RW> between DOS and OS/2 applications is a pain in the rear and I am not   
    RW> sure exactly how to get SIO2K to allow the sharing of a COM port   
    RW> between a DOS and and OS/2 app correctly to begin with.   
      
   i don't know about SIO2k but regular/original SIO simply used a '-' in the   
   last field... here's my device driver line for eight ports... on this system,   
   COM1 is the mouse, COM2 is locaked at 115200 for an analogue modem... all   
   other ports are telnet ports... only the tasks that need access to vmodem have   
   that driver loaded in their private properties... note the use of custom   
   addresses, too... just make sure they don't step on anything else that may   
   already be there...   
      
   DEVICE=X:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM1,3F8,4,-) (COM2:115200,2F8,3,-) (COM3   
   INTERNET:3E8,NONE:4,-) (COM4,INTERNET:2E8,NONE:3,-) (COM5,INTERN   
   T:1F8,NONE:3,-) (COM6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:3,-) (COM7,INTERNET:4F8,NONE:3,-)   
   (COM8,INTERNET:4E8,NONE:3,-)   
   DEVICE=X:\SIO\VSIO.SYS   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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