* BETA VERSION 1.09b - PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT PERMISSION *
  It's not really secret stuff, but if people have trouble with this
  version but are not aware that it's only a beta.....
  The b in 1.09b stands for second beta edition of the upcoming 1.09
  The distribution filename is HC2_109B.ZIP, and has my ZIP AV code!

  This is a FULL OS/2 edition of HydraCom so you can use HYDRACOM.DOC
  (still the 1.00 docs, I'm sorry) with for the following extra info:


  INSTALLATION
  ============
  Copy/move GIO.DLL in a directory in your libpath.
  This is the communications library HydraCom/2 currently uses.
  May change in the (near) future.


  REMOVED OPTIONS
  ===============
  nofossil        Use internal async routines even if FOSSIL present
  noinit          Don't init/deinit FOSSIL driver upon entry/exit
  slowdisk        Suspend async I/O during disk access
  com N=adr,irq   Set PORTADR,IRQ for comport N (example: COM 1=3F8,4)
  fifo off|N      16550A rxFIFO trigger level: off, 1-14 (default=8)
  dcdmask N       Carrier detect mask in decimal (default=128)
  biosvideo       Use BIOS routines instead of direct video access

  These options are not used/needed in OS/2. You ARE allowed to set them
  in HydraCfg/2, they're just ignored by HydraCom/2 in .CFG and .CTL files.
  But if you put any of these on the COMMANDLINE of HydraCom/2, you WILL
  get an error report.


  ADDED OPTION
  ============
  inherit N       OS/2 SIO handle passed from parent process

  If you call HydraCom/2 from another comms program like Maximus/2 or TE/2,
  use INHERIT instead of PORT. In this case N is not the port number but the
  file handle that calling comms program got from OS/2 when opening the port.
  If PORT and INHERIT are both specified (which is NOT the way it should be!)
  no matter which order.... HydraCom/2 will only use INHERIT and ignores PORT.


  DSZLOG
  ======
  The DSZLOG characters are lowercase 'h' for download, uppercase 'H' for
  upload. This is a change from HydraCom 1.00 !! (where the doc is based on)


  NOTES
  =====
  Not much, really. As already noted, this is a complete OS/2 edition:
  32-bit, windowed (no PM, sorry ;-), colours, chat mode, HydraCfg, etc.
  In short: just like the DOS version, but 32-bit native OS/2 compiled.

  Note the different filenames:
  DOS : HYDRACOM.EXE  HYDRACFG.EXE
  OS/2: HYDRAOS2.EXE  HYDCFG2.EXE
  This has one quite important implication:
  The OS/2 editions default to reading/writing HYDRAOS2.CFG while
  the DOS editions default to reading/writing HYDRACOM.CFG
  You CAN override the CFG file used by HydraCfg, but not in HydraCom.
  So you have two separate configurations for DOS and OS/2.
  I thought that was a smart thing to do, with possible different settings...


  SOURCES / COMPILER
  ==================
  The HydraCom source for DOS and OS/2 is almost identical, just some #ifdefs.
  It also uses the same windowing library (written by me).
  The OS/2 edition has been compiled with Borland C++ for OS/2 version 1.0
  In principle only sources of major releases are made available, ie.
  HydraCom 1.10 be a source release, but not HydraCom 1.09
  But if you REALLY need to have the latest source for a project, just ask;
  it's not a problem, I just don't want millions of source code versions
  floating around the world....


  HYDRACOM/2 IN MAXIMUS/2
  =======================
  You should be able to plug him into Maximus/2 like this:
  (please note that the DownloadCmd and UploadCmd lines have been split here!)

  Protocol Hydra
      Type            Batch
      Type            Bi
      LogFile         Hydra%K.Log
      ControlFile     Hydra%K.Ctl
  ; Put in NOS (nostamp) to not have HydraCom retain date/time on rcvd files
      DownloadCmd     HydraOS2.Exe inh %P spe %W lin %b use "%n" nor nob
                                    res %x:Hydra%K.Log rec %v sen @Hydra%K.Ctl
      UploadCmd       HydraOS2.Exe inh %P spe %W lin %b use "%n" nor nob
                                    res %x:Hydra%K.Log rec %v get
      DownloadString  %s
      UploadString
      DownloadKeyword h
      UploadKeyword   H
      FilenameWord    10
      DescriptWord    0
  End Protocol


  FEEDBACK
  ========
  Please report back as soon as possible if you have any comments?

  Arjen Lentz
  AINEX-BBS +31-33-633916
  FidoNet 2:283/512
  arjen_lentz@f512.n283.z2.fidonet.org

  I also read the OS2.... conferences on FidoNet.


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