Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!isishq!evanc
From: evanc@isishq.fidonet.org (Evan Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Running a DOS BBS in Unix
Message-ID: <8kJ634w163w@isishq.fidonet.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 91 23:30:18 EDT
References: <162.284C61FD@zswamp.uucp>
Organization: International Shared Information Service

>    Still, if you have the equipment, try it.  An NS16550AFN on your serial 
> card would be a good idea, as would configuring DOSMERGE to claim exclusive 
> ownership of that COM port (perhaps UNIX will be smart enough to invoke MERGE
> every time the serial port generates an interrupt).
>  
> 
> --  
> Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
> root@zswamp.uucp or ..uunet!watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root
> 602-66 Mooregate Crescent, Kitchener, ON, N2M 5E6 Canada (519)741-9553
> "He who claims to know everything can't possibly know much" -me


He has a NS16550AFN, so the FIFO's will buffer the input, so that isn't a 
problem.  I will tell him about configuring DOSMERGE to claim ownership of 
COM2.  Thanks for your help.

Evan