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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit 3.14 under Win95 problem
Message-Id: <1995Oct4.142419.62779@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 95 14:24:19 MDT
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In article <1995Oct4.102543@earth.medcolpa.edu>, schoffstall@earth.medcolpa.edu writes:
> I'm running Kermit 3.14 under Win95. It runs fine when you shut
> down Win95 and run a DOS session, but it won't run in a DOS box as a
> Win95 process, apparently because it can't detect the port. After it
> executes MSCUSTOM.INI, I get the message:
>
> ?Warning: unknown hardware for port. Using the Bios as BIOS1
> Unimplemented speed
> ?Cannot use RTS/CTS on non-UART parts
>
> This is on a 486. On a Pentium box, I get this message only
> *part* of the time. Huh?!? If I run Kermit in a DOS box, I get the error
> message, leave Kermit for DOS, then run Kermit *again*, it correctly
> detects the port. But not on the 486.
>
> What's going on here? How can it be fixed?
---------------
We don't know.
Call Microsoft Tech Support and/or dig deeply into the Resource
Kit.
That said, let me add a couple of comments. You may want to tell
Windows to not devote the serial port to its own apps, get its address
stated correctly, but leave it free. If you have other comms gear looking
for that port, say a FAX program or MS' RAS material, then expect trouble.
You might also want to run DEBUG.COM within a DOS box and display
what's in segment 40h, just as we explain in the MSK release notes. If the
first two bytes of 40:0h are empty (zeros) then Windows has usurped the port
and that's that; try Control Panel variations. If not then they should be the
same value as used elsewhere, such as \03f8 (two bytes together).
Remember that Windows virtualizes (fancy for takes over the real
and provides a fake substitute) serial port hardware, and failures to
behave normally are results of the emulation by Windows.
Joe D.