SC>> I have 4 comm ports set up with SIO.  2 for serial
 SC>> ports 1&2, and 2 for Vmodem. I tried loading one for
 SC>> Vmodem on comm5 but got a bootup error.
 FS> To my knowledge, the 4 port shareware version of SIO can
 FS> only be set up for an actual physically *existing* comm
 FS> port (no more than 4 for the 4 port version).
actually, it's 4 ports only... com1-com4... no numbers greater than 4... 
before i got mine registered, i com1 for my ups, com2 was a modem/bbs, com3 
was modem/internet, and com4 was a virtual port. when i registered, i went 
with the 8 port version and now have 5 nodes of the bbs running on virtual 
ports with com1, com2, and com3 running as described above ;-)
even with the shareware 4 port version, only using 2 com ports, you can't set 
a com5...
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