From Ron Mitchell for Rich Drushel..........

Got a couple of questions  for you, good sir. I am going to ask 
them 'in public' copy to the broadcast list, because other 
inquiring minds might want to know.


What would be required in the way of a 'hack' to get SERVE72E.
EXE to do its i/o on com 1 rather that  com2?

The drive setup on this particular variation is what I want, but 
on the particular XT I want to use, I only have a single com 
port, which is com 1. Can I use Filemanager to change a byte here 
or there to get what I want? 

Just to confuse things even further, I also presently have the 
server running SERVE72A.EXE with a 286 and that one works just 
fine, giving me a 1.4 Meg 3-1/2 emulated floppy, and a 1.2 meg 
5-1/4.


Next item:

Have been playing about with disk images of various sizes on 
Marcel deKogel's ADAM emulator. As you may have heard, we had 
some difficulty at ADAMCon 10 preparing disk images with ADAM 
(and various versions of IBM that would actually work on the 
Server. Dale Wick theorized that the process seemed to work 
better late at night, and he may well have a point.)  Anyway
Since I have neither a 1.4 meg 3-1/2 nor 720k 3-1/2 floppy,  I 
had been hoping to be able to use your ADAM server to prepare 
disk images (suitably initialized and all) for use on the emul-
ator. When I tried that with a 1.4 meg 3-1/2 inch disk, format-
ted by IBM, initialized by Filemager v4.0 on the (server) and 
then transferred to the Emulator workspace using DCOPY.EXE, my 
'virtual' filemanager informed me that this was "not an EOS 
media". That made some sense, becuase the Filemanager I was us-
ing, version 3.0 operating as a disk image on the emulator, 
doesn't recognize 1.4 meg floppies. Your Filemanager 4.0 however 
does. So, being the smart lad that I am, I decided to port your 
version of the FILEMAN program over to the emulator.......
where of course, it refused to run. Suspect it was looking for 
some kind of serial output which was not there, so it gave up 
in disgust.

Am I going where no man should ever go?

Ron Mitchell



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