Traps and Pitfalls when switching from older or other Binkley versions

o Modem responses are parsed cAsE-sensitive now, so "Ring" in your Binkley.Cfg will NOT match any longer a "RING" sent by the modem!!! Make sure to have your ModemConnect (and all other Modem... response settings) / NoFilter statements EXACTLY, case-sensitively matching your modem's responses!
o You have either to do a FULL domain setup (Domain, DomainKludge, Address z:n/n.p@domain) OR do not use domains AT ALL (no Domain, no DomainKludge, only Address z:n/n.p). If you don't REALLY need domains, I advise you NOT to use domains at all (it will look nicer and you will have less trouble).
o Please delete your BINKLEY.S?? files (in Binkley or TaskDir directory) before installing a new version of BT-XE. If necessary, please also delete BINKLEY.A?? and BINKLEY.D??. Further, please delete the shared outbound dump of older versions: BTRESCAN.DMP
o If you have "ModemIgnore RINGING" in your config-file then please change it to "ModemRing RINGING".
o If you have "ModemFailure OK" in your config file then please change it to "ModemIgnore OK".
o If you want to have nodelist access to behave as ever, then please add "SysopNDX" to your config file.
o You should run 80x50 video mode to get the most out of BT-XE - for terminal mode and chatting this is almost a "must"...
o You should NOT run different BT-XE versions at the same time because the data format of the (shared outbound) file BTRESCAN.DMP has changed.
o You must set the read only attribute for the DOS overlayed executables.
o You maybe will see quite some transmission errors (resending, trouble, ...) in the log now. This is not because BT got worse, but because they ARE logged now. With older versions, they only appeared on the screen and vanished shortly afterwards, but they were NOT logged. So the logging of errors is a feature, not a bug.



Tip from Hauke Hagenhoff, 2:2453/470

When using the original serial-port-driver for OS/2, COM.SYS, you will need to configure the port using the MODE command for having BinkleyTerm work all right.

The following setting is recommended:
mode COMx:yyyyy,n,8,1,,to=on,xon=off,idsr=off,odsr=off,octs=on,dtr=hs,rts=hs,buffer=on

Where x is the COMx:-port to set and yyyyy the desired port speed.

Most important are the IDSR and ODSR-settings, if they are wrong, BT won't work properly. BUFFER=ON is to switch the FIFO-buffer on.



Tip from Steffen Motzer, 2:2471/1071.3

You can pass the com-port from Bink-XE/2 to a DOS-BBS without using SIO:
o If your version uses the internal async module, then put "SharePort" in binkley.cfg - otherwise use siocomm.dll or the patched maxcomm.dll.
o Use a fossil-driver that opens the com-port in OPEN_SHARE_DENYNONE mode:
o Virtual Fossil Driver (COM): ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/com/vfd055b.zip
o vcfos (ISDN): ftp://ftp.cfos.com/pub/cfos/

The DOS-BBS will be able to share the com-port with Bink-XE/2

Recommended mode command for OS/2 version with internal async routines:
mode COMx:yyyyy,n,8,1,to=on,xon=off,octs=on,dtr=on,rts=hs,buffer=on

No 'SioMode' in binkley.cfg.


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