[pmmail-list] BASIC on win2k (Was: Filter question)

[Sorin Srbu]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:40:11 +0200, Norbert Schmidt wrote:

>>>I just tried running IBM's old DOS QBASIC.EXE (as shipped with 
>>>OS/2!) under Win98 and it worked perfectly!
>>I wonder if it would under win2k too...
>
>there might be a problem testing the app: In win98 MS totally massacred
>the COM support in the DOS boxes. (I was rather p/o, when I upgraded
>from w95 and my old DOS software couldn't access the modem anymore ...
>:-((((.) It's probably gone in win2k as well.

This might be an issue for us too, since the instrument involved in
all this uses the com port for communicating with the computer...
Well, we'll see what the user says about all this...

Thx for the hint though!


BW,

Sorin

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