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to: DAVID WROBEL
from: SCOTT MCNAY
date: 1997-04-22 08:23:00
subject: Windows 95

 *** David Wrobel wrote in a message to Arnie Sossner:
DW> On a side note, I run a couple DOS programs with Win 95.  If
DW> I have  NetPager running and I try to run PCAnywhere for
DW> dos, PCA can't talk to  the modem (the port is BUSY). 
DW> Unload NetPager and all is fine.  It's  possible that
DW> something in Win '95 has already taken the modem such as 
DW> Microsoft Fax. I've been bitten by that too.
The worst part is that as far as I know, the only way to find out what 
program is tying up the COM port is trial and error, and even that doesn't 
always work.
--Scott.
--- timEd 1.01
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