Hello Jerry !

On 20-Jan'09 19:05, Jerry Schwartz wrote to Richard Webb:

 JS> That is absolutely true (the port handoff problem), but 
 JS> unfortunately I no longer remember the details. I was 
 JS> trying it under Win98, though, and haven't tried it under 
 JS> XP. The problem is that a DOS program needs exclusive use 
 JS> of the port, and won't let go of it until it terminates. 
 JS> When it does, it's parent DOS program (in this case, the 
 JS> DOS command interpreter) inherits it and won't let go.

 JS> With XP, the command interpreter is a completely different 
 JS> (32-bit) beast, the problem might no longer exists.

May be if people use WinFOSSIL but that thing's so old it probably doesn't
work under Windows XP or Vista.

Maybe NetSerial will work. 

But man ... MODEMS ... DIALUP ?? you've -got- to be joking.

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