• COM Port in Use

    From Robert Wolfe@1:2320/100 to All on Mon Mar 28 13:10:02 2016
    Hi all!

    Well, it looks like I got OS/2 Warp 4 installed in a VM and the BBS
    working with SIO 1.60d and VMODEM. Unfortunately, whenever I go to
    start the BBS, I am getting the popup saying that the virtual com port
    is in use when it really isn't. If I ignore through the error boxes,
    the BBS starts up just find and runs normally.

    Unfortunately, this popup is an annoyance when trying to run a front
    end mailer (ViaMail in this case) and it goes to load the BBS and the
    BBS exits back out to the mailer when a caller logs off.

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  • From Ben Ritchey@1:2320/100 to Robert Wolfe on Mon Mar 28 16:49:02 2016
    * An ongoing debate between Robert Wolfe and All rages on ...

    start the BBS, I am getting the popup saying that the virtual com port
    is in use when it really isn't. If I ignore through the error boxes,
    the BBS starts up just find and runs normally.

    I get one of these in my WinXp32 VM using Mystic, but it doesn't affect anything that I can see going on, so I just dismiss it {shrug} let me know if you discover the cause! :)

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:2320/100 to Ben Ritchey on Mon Mar 28 22:56:02 2016
    * An ongoing debate between Robert Wolfe and All rages on ...

    start the BBS, I am getting the popup saying that the virtual com
    port RW> is in use when it really isn't. If I ignore through the
    error boxes, RW> the BBS starts up just find and runs normally.
    I get one of these in my WinXp32 VM using Mystic, but it doesn't
    affect anything that I can see going on, so I just dismiss it {shrug}
    let me know if you discover the cause! :)

    Sadly, I haven't yet. Then again, I mucked up my Warp 4 VM badly by
    applying a fixpack the wrong way. I would like to apply it via either
    CD (via an ISO image mounted in the VM) or from the hard drive, but have
    not really found any good step-by-step instructions as to how to go
    about doing either of these or by using the RSU application (I keep
    getting a message about a bad directory layout, but the archive on IBM's
    site doesn't say exactly how things should be layed out.

    Now if anyone has a working ISO of the latest OS/2 Warp 4 FixPack they
    would not mind sending me, I can give them access to my FPT server
    (running an OS/2 FTP server package called FtpServer by Peter Moylan).

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  • From Ben Ritchey@1:2320/100 to Robert Wolfe on Tue Mar 29 02:17:02 2016
    * An ongoing debate between Robert Wolfe and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

    Now if anyone has a working ISO of the latest OS/2 Warp 4 FixPack they would not mind sending me, I can give them access to my FPT server (running an OS/2 FTP server package called FtpServer by Peter Moylan).

    I have working VHDs of eCS 2.2 and Debian :)

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  • From Mike Luther@1:2320/100 to Robert Wolfe on Tue Mar 29 09:56:02 2016
    Well Maybe I can explain a bit but who knows?


    Hi all!

    Well, it looks like I got OS/2 Warp 4 installed in a VM and the BBS working with SIO 1.60d and VMODEM. Unfortunately, whenever I go to
    start the BBS, I am getting the popup saying that the virtual com port
    is in use when it really isn't. If I ignore through the error boxes,
    the BBS starts up just find and runs normally.

    Unfortunately, this popup is an annoyance when trying to run a front
    end mailer (ViaMail in this case) and it goes to load the BBS and the
    BBS exits back out to the mailer when a caller logs off.

    --- ViaMAIL!/WC v2.00
    * Origin: ViaMAIL! - Lightning Fast Mailer for Wildcat! (1:261/20)

    I think few people have much knowledge of how OS/2 handles actual IRQ numbers and ring level work that are really needed for carrying OS/2 back to way before
    even DOS operations for some things. For example, 'normal' IRQ top level stuff only applies to IRQ 'numbers' up to what I think I recall are number 8. That's not enough to work with some things that we need for IRQ level numbers which go up even way beyond number 8 especially when OS/2 is 'later' dealing with multiple CPU operations that, as I think I recall this, are up to as many as sixteen separate CPU's which then must be able to be coordinated with each other as to what each CPU is doing that must be absolutely understood by any action even down to COMM ports so that things don't violate the order of operation for multiple CPU stuff that grew up long after the original ring level and machine language code which I was originally working with LONG before
    there was OS/2 even there.

    OK, If, for example, as I do even today in many operations, use Warp 4 and MP4 later in the same computer for multiple COMM port stuff that does include BBS operations, as well as my custom ham and commercial radio total operating stuff
    that controls even the antenna direction and so on as well as integrated BBS operations, I still use SIO very well. However,when I also totally log even telephone line use in REAL TIME to all of this with special total digital phone
    line trace work even to CNID track operations in sync with radio station control, total real time double entry bookkeeping and even GPS location for everywhere your fingertips are touching a body in medical work, I notice this,
    By the way, all this is in my over 1,000,000 lines of source code work that still goes down to ring level and machine language stuff even today!

    When I boot the system, I obviously have to use SIO to set up VMWARE for both BBS and even total telephone line real-time logging for all of this. When I FIRST TURN ON the special phone line monitoring for every thing a phone company
    does on the line for digital use to trace where it went, I notice that the actual FIRST IRQ port which is tracked is port 184 if my memory is correct. That's when SIO is first set up going to the special digital tracking device that I'm sure none of you folks ever use. Well then on any NEXT access to the 'normal' COMM port, say number 3 or 4 that the special little unit is listening
    to every phone line in the whole place for every touch to any number or computer generated snoop on any line in real-time, the actual port that is used
    is NOT 184, is say, port number 176. And that can VERY confuse ANYTHING down to even pure CPU or multiple CPU computer unit operations. Which, to my knowledge, ONLY OS/2 or down to even memory block operations can ever do and Windows has NEVER been able to do after Billy Boy stole HeathDOS from them and took Gordon Letwin away to bridge the lost of what is now Windows from IBM.

    I have NO WAY of tracing this to what you folks are complaining about here but suspect this sort of thing is exactly what may be causing this. Worse,unless you can get the actual people that are now using whatever to run everyting in what they all think is their neat hidden snoop for everything that is touched down to evey CPM in NSA or whatever country, you will, I suspect never be able to find it unless you can totally snoop them as well in a never to be able to decrypt trick.

    Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:2320/100 to Mike Luther on Tue Mar 29 18:14:02 2016
    On Mar 29, 2016 09:56am, Mike Luther wrote to Robert Wolfe:

    Well Maybe I can explain a bit but who knows?

    Um, no, you didn't explain anything at all, unfortunately. Really nothing to do with my original question.

    Well, it looks like I got OS/2 Warp 4 installed in a VM and the BBS
    working with SIO 1.60d and VMODEM. Unfortunately, whenever I go to
    start the BBS, I am getting the popup saying that the virtual com port
    is in use when it really isn't. If I ignore through the error boxes,
    the BBS starts up just find and runs normally.

    Unfortunately, this popup is an annoyance when trying to run a front
    end mailer (ViaMail in this case) and it goes to load the BBS and the
    BBS exits back out to the mailer when a caller logs off.

    ^^^^^ My original question/problem.

    I think few people have much knowledge of how OS/2 handles actual IRQ numbers and ring level work that are really needed for carrying OS/2
    back to way before even DOS operations for some things. For example, 'normal' IRQ top level stuff only applies to IRQ 'numbers' up to what I think I recall are number 8. That's not enough to work with some
    things that we need for IRQ level numbers which go up even way beyond number 8 especially when OS/2 is 'later' dealing with multiple CPU operations that, as I think I recall this, are up to as many as sixteen separate CPU's which then must be able to be coordinated with each
    other as to what each CPU is doing that must be absolutely understood
    by any action even down to COMM ports so that things don't violate the order of operation for multiple CPU stuff that grew up long after the original ring level and machine language code which I was originally working with LONG before there was OS/2 even there.

    [...much deletia...]

    Sorry, but all I got from your original post was a bunch of information that I don't think related to my question so it was basically just information overload for me. Sorry.

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