Hi, I found INTER... on the Powerload DOS page, so I gave it a try
in DOSEmu... Result:
- DEVLOAD crashes because something at some point makes the SS:SP be
at 9fdf:0b08 (-> linear: axxxx, inside VGA RAM!), strange.
- DEVICE seems to work:
device?=c:\home\ramdisk\interlnk.exe /noscan /low /noprinter /v /lpt1
The /low is "no UMB", /noscan "do not connect to server at once",
/noprinter is "do not redirect printers", /v is "do not mess with timer"
and /lpt1 is "select port lpt1" - because otherwise interlnk might attempt
to open a data transfer with the serial mouse X-).
Because I have no 2nd PC with intersvr running, INTERLNK simply creates
three drive letters which behave like floppy drives without disks - as
predicted by the documentation.
>dir i:
Error reading from drive I: DOS area: drive not ready
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Out of memory error.
<-- apart from the known FreeCOM bug (it displays "out of memory error"
but actually wants to say "disk access error" or similar), all okay.
>interlnk i:=c:
Connection NOT established
...
<-- fine, too. I simply have no intersvr running and actually not even
a link cable connected to the "DOSEmu PC" ;-)).
device?=c:\home\ramdisk\intersvr.exe /x=c: /v
This seems to crash, so I try:
device?=c:\home\ramdisk\intersvr.exe /x=c: /v /lpt1
...
Same problem. Being frozen in some I/O port scanning loop. So I think
you either have to test on a real system or: Run INTERSVR on a MS DOS
box and try if you can connect to it with INTERLNK running on a FreeDOS box!
Thanks for testing, would be rrreally interesting to know!
PS: /x=c: is because my DOSEmu C: is a virtual drive... the other drives
are real floppy and diskimage-FAT drives (12..32), I assume that INTERSVR
supports only FAT, but all types which the underlying kernel supports? When
in doubt, suppress all FAT32 drives as well.
(the file at powerload is called interlk6, an exe, but you can unzip it, too)
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