MS-DOS and MS-DOS Network Devices

PRO/5 is capable of opening devices maintained by MS-DOS Networks. Usually, these devices are the same as you might access in the command processor where you place "/dev/" at the start of the name and remove the trailing ":" character. (The colon is an invention of the command processor.)

Most MS-DOS systems do not have any protocol support on serial devices, so device drivers IBMCOM1.SYS, and IBMCOM2.SYS are supplied on one of the PRO/5 supplemental diskettes. These files are MS-DOS device drivers for the COM1 and COM2 serial ports on an IBM-PC or compatible system. To install either driver on your system, copy the file to the root directory of your boot disk and add the line to your config.sys file:

DEVICE=IBMCOM1.SYS (or "IBMCOM2.SYS")

When you reboot your system, the COM1 (or COM2) device will be setup as a XON/XOFF bi-directional buffered port.

The device drivers have the following defaults:

baud rate:	9600
Word size:	7
stop bits:	1
parity:	odd

The default port settings may be modified with the MS-DOS "MODE" command. (See your MS-DOS manual for details.)