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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: communications and DOS settings problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.233511.21681@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: OS2
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <BuFwyH.526@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep12.020527.18529@midway.uchicago.edu> <BuGADw.8G4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:35:11 GMT
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- In article <BuGADw.8G4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
- >>Why? Try resetting your modem to COM2 -- it isn't kosher to leave
- >>"holes" in the COM port assignments.
- >I should have stated this before. I have to use COM4 because another program
- >I need to use (to access this university's NOVANET system; I do not know if
- >any one is familiar with this, or if it is just specific to this university-
- >but anyway I have to access it with this certain communications program)
- >will not allow me to use COM2 for some reason. So I have to set the modem to
- >COM4 and tell this program to use COM4. Anyway, I tried COM2 with the
- >comm program that does not print anything on the screen under OS2, and it was
- >the same thing-it still did not print anything on the screen.
-
- How about COM1? Can you shuffle things around?
-
- The point is that COM3 and COM4 were never standardized on the PC, so
- if you can stick with standard COM1 and COM2 you're going to be better
- off no matter what software you use.
-
- I'm sure this thread has been chased down, though, so I'm sure you're
- communicating right now.
-
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