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- From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Why new COM drivers?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.205114.9805@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:51:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.001811.1002@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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- In article <1992Aug20.001811.1002@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
- >I have read various articles about the new OS/2 COM drivers. What are
- >the new drivers for? Are they for people who have problems in general or
- >just using COM3 or COM4? Should I use the new COM drivers even if I have
- >no problems with the original? Help....
-
- The new COM drivers allow you to restrict access to COM ports in VDMs. For
- example, CARBON COPY wants to grab ALL ports. With the new driver, you can
- specify that the VDM only gets access to COM1, or NO ports, or ALL (default).
- Also, the new driver allows you to specify how you handle spurrious
- interrupts, it has better port detection (on some machines, OS/2 wouldn't find
- a comm port), it allows the Hayes ESP card to function as a normal comm port,
- and it allows you to unhook VCOM (some DOS apps need this to work).
-
- This new COM driver is *BETA* quality. If your system isn't broke, and you
- don't want to fiddle, DON'T USE IT. If you have problems, but don't want to
- fiddle, DON'T USE IT. If you want to help test the *proposed* new function,
- give it a try. There is a feedback response form in the package, so if you
- find problems, you can send them direct to IBM (if you don't like USMail,
- email the forms to me).
-
- Yes, there's a lot of new "stuff" in the new drivers. Just don't put these
- things on your mission-critical communications system without testing them
- thoroughly.
-
- Well, you're seeing the "new IBM" - do you like it?
-