COMM-DRV/Dos v18.0 Upgrade Press Release

WCSC is releasing COMM-DRV/Dos v18.0. It remains backwardly compatible with previous versions. The product offers a myriad of enhancements.

COMM-DRV/Dos enables very high speed serial and reliable serial communications for real mode or protected mode MSDOS program under Windows. You are now able to leverage your existing DOS code under Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

In addition to running under old reliable legacy MSDOS, COMM-DRV/Dos will work under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 with all non-intelligent multiport cards based on the 8250/16450/16550/16650/16750/16850 family of UARTs. This is accomplished by providing direct hooks to our COMM-DRV/VxD product for Windows 95/98 and our COMM-DRV/NT product for Windows NT/2000.  The COMM-DRV/Dos TSR can be loaded in DOS boxes (MSDOS command prompt) and receive its serial services from either the VxD provided by COMM-DRV/VxD (Windows 95/Windows 98) or kernel driver provided by COMM-DRV/NT (Windows NT/2000).

Old DOS applications built to COMM-DRV/Dos' DAM, FOSSIL, BIOS/INT14, or INT21 interface can gain new life under Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, and 2000 when integrated with our COMM-DRV/VxD and COMM-DRV/NT products.

COMM-DRV/Dos remains targeted to the MSDOS market, the Extended DOS market for 16/32 bit extended DOS applications (e.g., Watcom's DOS4GW, PharLap), as well as the Embedded DOS market (e.g., ROMDOS). It is the only set of communication utilities with said scope on the market today.

COMM-DRV/Dos v18.0 New features and enhancements include:

• Support for PCI cards. UARTs addresses and IRQs are automatically detected.
• Supports 16650 UARTs. COMM-DRV/Dos auto-detects the UART. If it finds a UART with a working FIFO it enables. If it finds a 16650 it enables both the FIFO and built-in flow control if requested.
• Interrupt handler processes FIFO errors eliminating lockups due to streaming data while port is being initialized.
• Monitor utility display format changes that includes hex display and state of CTS, DSR, RI, CD.
• TSR now display the addresses & IRQs of the loaded ports. This allows the user to see the addresses used by PCI cards.
• File transfer utility displays dialog box with file transfer statistics restoring screen when done.
• The mini-BBS utility robustness is vastly improved.
• Extended DOS examples (e.g., Watcom's DOS4GW,etc).

Please review http://www.wcscnet.com/CdrvDBro.htm for complete description of COMM-DRV/Dos.

Upgrade Pricing:

Users of COMM-DRV/Dos v16.1 and COMM-DRV/Dos v17.0 can upgrade to COMM-DRV/Dos v18.0 for $79.95. All other engineers receiving this offer can purchase COMM-DRV/Dos v18.0 for $99.95.  This offer also includes discounts on all of our other products. 

Ordering:

Take advantage of this offer today. This offer expires March 31st, 2000. The retail cost of COMM-DRV/Dos will be $189.95 after this offer expires. Anyone receiving this notice can take advantage of these discounts. You must order directly from our secured website at http://www.wcscnet.com/order8.htm to take advantage of these discounts.