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TITLE: 950128 GP FAULTS STARTING WINDOWS COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMS
IN OS/2 2.1 SE AND WARP
DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS:
GP Faults in comm drivers while launching or running various
communication applications for Windows under either
2.1 for Windows or WARP
SUMMARY OF RESOLUTION:
SEE DETAILS
DETAILS OF RESOLUTION:
Many Windows based Communications applications when installed,
replace the default COMM.DRV to another driver. These drivers
attempt to poll com ports in such a way that OS/2 will detect
this polling and generate errors and terminate the app.
If these symptoms present themselves, edit SYSTEM.INI. In the .BOOT.
Section, notice the COMM.DRV section, if it equals ANYTHING but
COMM.DRV, edit the statement accordingly so that
COMM.DRV=COMM.DRV.
The symptoms should disapper