Hi Roy.

 JB>> The BIOS never skips COM-port numbers.  if you have  ports on 3F8
 JB>> 2F8  and 2E8  it'll number them com1 com2 com3  even though the
 JB>> last one (2E8) is the "com4" address.

 JB>> Dos follows the BIOS, MSD may be following the DOS naming of the
 JB>> ports.

 RJT> Hmm.  I wasn't aware of that.  I wonder why it shows up "right"
 RJT> in other software,  then

because other software doesn't use the BIOS for serial I/O
the same renumbering is done with printer ports too.

 -=> Bye <=-

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