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I know most will say to use SBBS but I could not get it to pass the login info, thier's a topic here already about that, anyways dug up my Null Modem cable (been 10 or 11 years since I ran doors) Wg is setup 2F8-19200 as well as the door PC but I get this happening.

Serial Channel Signal

[Carrier Detect][Clear to send][Data set ready][Receive][Transmit]
[No Null Modem]

When it loads up the Clear to send and Data set ready, have the green boxes under them its not until 5 or more seconds that carrier detect switches to No Null modem? tried com ports 1 and 2 (using 1 its an instant No Null Modem. Any ideas its been a long time....

Have you tried a different null modem cable? There were like two different types that were wired differently, I believe.

I bought a new null modem cable this AM and its still the same story

Make sure the com ports are enabled in the bios, try setting the speed to 38.4... If all else fails, try a different computer.

You are running GHOST under DOS, right?

Yes boots into DOS, will have to check the ports.

Drex wrote:I know most will say to use SBBS but I could not get it to pass the login info, thier's a topic here already about that, anyways dug up my Null Modem cable (been 10 or 11 years since I ran doors) Wg is setup 2F8-19200 as well as the door PC but I get this happening.

Serial Channel Signal

[Carrier Detect][Clear to send][Data set ready][Receive][Transmit]
[No Null Modem]

When it loads up the Clear to send and Data set ready, have the green boxes under them its not until 5 or more seconds that carrier detect switches to No Null modem? tried com ports 1 and 2 (using 1 its an instant No Null Modem. Any ideas its been a long time....

be sure your mouse is disabled in cmos or the motherboard/IO card (if it has it) try com2 first @38400. You may want to run MODE at the dos promt to see the port config and set the comports..
I will hunt around later today and find the manual that has the null modem pin config for WG/MBBS and scan it for you and post here. Thier were 2 pins you had to switch on on one end but I cant remember which ones.

If I'm not mistaken, the worldgroup server has to be set to match the speed of the ghost server. So, you have to start them both at the same speed or it won't work. It's been several months since I've messed with ghost, when I was going to try to figure out how to make a nightly cleanup routine work, because GHOST doesn't have one, and any TSR program I found that would reboot at a certain time or do a certain task either had to be in a dos command prompt to do so or couldn't be registered any more.

So, I came up with the conclusion that the only way to reliably do it would be to run GHOST in desqview and have one tab open just to reboot every night at a certain time and let the autoexec.bat run all of the cleanup routines. However, I got busy with other projects and hadn't tried it out to see if it would work.

GHOST would be great for programs that only let 1 people in at a time (BRE) and for games that didn't require an external event to run cleanup. GCOMM could have had a lot more success with GHOST if they had created an expansion of GHOST that would run off of the lan and have its own multitasker built in. The closest things we have to that now are synchronet and gamesrv.

Drex wrote:I bought a new null modem cable this AM and its still the same story

I made a pdf with the 3 pages from the WG 2 manual re null modem cables.
you can dl it here


http://theswampbbs.dyndns.org/nullmod.pdf

hope it helps you.