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- The following message is enclosed for those early Gateway P5 owners
- utilizing this program to attempt to get around the comm port lockup
- on those computers.
-
- FROM: BOB SMIEJEK, 73662,544
- DATE: 02/24/94
-
- SUBJECT: Gateway P5 Com port "fix" (Dos)
-
- This is the second "patch" that I have found to work. So far it much
- faster than the first, and 100% effective. (for me) I'm using
- Hyperaccess5 for Dos, and the lockups were driving me nuts. The reports
- that the com ports only lock in windows is pure BS, as many of us know.
- The program is called Assync10. It is a freeware program on many BBS's.
- It is only 24k. It can be run from the c:\prompt before accessing the
- communication program, or put in a batch file that runs Async first,
- then calls the Comm. program. I'm using it in a batch program, and I
- have not locked up for months. I also had to add it to a batch file for
- CIM (for Dos), to prevent locks. The working line is simply
-
- "async com1=2400"
-
- This resets the com port, that locks-up, back to the original boot up
- configuration of 2400. and the "freeze" or lock is prevented.(or
- bypassed). All I know is that it works perfectly. AND it does NOT
- disable the FIFO!!! (as far as I know<G>). (The other program that
- worked was "the Modem Doctor", but the batch file had to include an
- Anykey macro to run it fast). Async is instantaneous.
-
- I would be real interested to see if this would also work for anyone
- with a Windows program. Those people must hate shutting the buffer
- off with the other patch.
-
- Bob
-