Sharing com ports


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My experience sharing Com 2 may be of interest to other readers (Backup conflicts with fax, February, p160). I use a Hayes modem installed in July 95. The software driving the comms program is Smartcom LE for Windows.
I recently installed Office 97, and in testing it I noticed that when it was running in the autoreceive fax mode I could not dial into OzEmail because of the message saying that Com 2 was in use. Hayes technical support told me that there was no way around this problem. However, when I deleted Smartcom and used only Win95 the com port is shared without any trouble.
- Eric Booth

Category: Hardware, Win95
Issue: Apr 1997
Pages: 167-168

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