> I've got to stress that the programs still run on my laptop and all
> other programs (even Managing Your Money for DOS) runs on the Win95
> desktop.  My COM2 uses the standard IRQ of 2 and address of 2F8.
 
Ah!  Unless you made a typo, there's your problem!  The "standard" IRQ 
for COM2 is 3 (not 2).
 
On a side note, I run a couple DOS programs with Win 95.  If I have 
NetPager running and I try to run PCAnywhere for dos, PCA can't talk to 
the modem (the port is BUSY).  Unload NetPager and all is fine.  It's 
possible that something in Win '95 has already taken the modem such as 
Microsoft Fax. I've been bitten by that too.
 
[ Dave ]
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