nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>My generous (NOT) 60 days of tech support has run out, and I have problems.
>Hopefully, I can get some answers here.
>First, my communications program is not working in OS/2. The communications
>program is quicklink II, something that came with my modem (for DOS). when I ran it the first couple times, it was fine until I actually tried to work with the
>UNIX mainframe here (what gives me access to this net). when I connected, some
>weird characters appeared at the prompts. It just kept doing this. Looked like
>line noise, but it wasn't.
>After this, I tried changing DOS settings, but that made it worse (even when I
>After I changed some DOS settings, it was worse (even after I changed them back)Now when I go to the screen for the comm program, nothing even appears on the
>screen. I typed in atdt followed by a number anyway, and the modem dialed it.
>But nothing was showing up the screen. It stayed blank.
>Speaking of DOS settings, that is where my 2nd problem comes in. I saw no way
>to change the processor time of a DOS app, or make it exclusive (the only thing
>running when it is the foreground app). I want to be able to do this so that
>DOS apps run at full speed (DOS apps can run at full speed under OS/2, can't
>they?).
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
Details on my problem:
computer: 386-33, local clone with American Megatrends motherboard.
modem : Compudyne 2400 internal modem.
COM's : Mouse driver says, mouse installed on COM1. 2nd serial port empty.
modem set to use COM4.
When I run the communications program, OS2 gives me an error screen saying
the program tried to access COM2, which is already in use by another program,
but there was nothing using COM2, and nothing plugged into second serial port.
The modem is set to use COM4, but I can not use COM4 if sopmething is already using COM2, and can't use COM3 if something is using COM1. So I do not know if
COM2 and COM4 are the exact same thing or not. Again, the mouse is on COM1,
