Hello All,

Ray Gwinn and I are in discussion about my taking over the care and feeding of SIO/VMODEM (a telnet engine/virtual modem/FOSSIL driver for OS/2 that Ray developed about 25 years ago). Nothing is set in stone yet but the discussion is going well.

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Ray Gwinn and I are in discussion about my taking over the care and feedin SIO/VMODEM (a telnet engine/virtual modem/FOSSIL driver for OS/2 that Ray developed about 25 years ago). Nothing is set in stone yet but the discus is going well.

That'd be cool ... I didn't think he still had the code for it. If you do, get SIO 1.60d ... the SIO2K one didn't seem to work well.

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Hello T.J.,

Tuesday August 02 2022 16:22, you wrote to me:

Ray Gwinn and I are in discussion about my taking over the care
and feedin SIO/VMODEM (a telnet engine/virtual modem/FOSSIL driver
for OS/2 that Ray developed about 25 years ago). Nothing is set
in stone yet but the discus is going well.

That'd be cool ... I didn't think he still had the code for it. If
you do, get SIO 1.60d ... the SIO2K one didn't seem to work well.

I'd get the code for both. As it is all written in assembly language, I have a steep learning curve in front of me. I'd like to get SIO2K working.

-- Sean

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I'd get the code for both. As it is all written in assembly language, I h a steep learning curve in front of me. I'd like to get SIO2K working.

If you can continue it great! I never had much like with it. SIO was picky on my hardward ... I was stuck on 1.45 for a while, 1.60 crashed a lot, then 1.60d was very stable .... I have 1.60d on my Arca setup, but vmodem is giving me crap starting. Then I figured I'd downgrade to 1.45 and see if it helped, but then it errors ont he config.sys and I am too lazy to install the iso and boot to the cmd prompt to fix it. So it has been sitting like that for a week or so. <G>

I think that was my ONLY beef from OS/2 .... anything died in that config.sys you were SCREWED unless you had a good backup and the os install to get you to a prompt.

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Hello T.J.,

Tuesday August 02 2022 20:54, you wrote to me:

I think that was my ONLY beef from OS/2 .... anything died in that config.sys you were SCREWED unless you had a good backup and the os install to get you to a prompt.

When you see the white bar with "OS/2" next to it during boot, press Alt-F1. You will go to a boot screen where you can boot up using the original CONFIG.SYS from a command prompt and edit the current CONFIG.SYS using TEDIT. I'm surprised you didn't know that.

-- Sean

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When you see the white bar with "OS/2" next to it during boot, press Alt-F You will go to a boot screen where you can boot up using the original CONFIG.SYS from a command prompt and edit the current CONFIG.SYS using TED I'm surprised you didn't know that.

I honestyl MAY have ... but I forgot if I did. Thanks.

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On 02 Aug 2022, Sean Dennis said the following...

Hello All,

Ray Gwinn and I are in discussion about my taking over the care and feeding of SIO/VMODEM (a telnet engine/virtual modem/FOSSIL driver for OS/2 that Ray developed about 25 years ago). Nothing is set in stone
yet but the discussion is going well.

does that mean open sourcing it? vmodem needs some serious work to be on the public internet. i have vmodem partially reverse engineered .. it has a few undocumented DosDevIOCtl calls to turn the emulated DCD, etc on and off and I
could really use the source to figure it out..

also, i thought that netlabs was already in talks with him? all of that code
is in assembly and they'd be able to maintain/improve it for ArcaOS, OS4, etc

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On 02 Aug 2022, T.J. Mcmillen said the following...

That'd be cool ... I didn't think he still had the code for it. If you do, get SIO 1.60d ... the SIO2K one didn't seem to work well.

SIO2K is awful..

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