Hello
  Just a comment.  It is my understanding that even OS/2 v2 was capable of
virtual coms and could create 256 coms w/o conflict.  I haven't used a
modem in a couple years so I'm rusty but it shouldn't be to hard to get
additional coms and even lock one in as com 5, iirc.
Jimmy

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From: "kish_44" 
> I bought a US Robotics model 5610B controller-based PCI modem last week (which 
> is the 
> only controller-based internal modem they sell these days) that
supposedly works 
> with 
> Linux.  But Microsoft must have been twisting some arms, as the fine print (and 
> I do mean 
> fine print) says that it will only connect via COM5.  Now why not COM4 or 3 or 
> 2?  It goes 
> on to say that, if you have a "legacy" system such as Win95,
all you have to do 
> is install a 
> little bit of software that will allow your COM4 port to virtually see the COM5 
> port.  Of 
> course, that software only runs under Windows, essentialy blocking access via 
> OS/2.  
> Disgusting!!
> 
> So, for question '1', does someone, such as Ray Gwinn, have a way to access 
> hardware that 
> requires COM5?
> 
>


 
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