On 13 Apr 98  13:07:34, mark lewis said this to Tom Rutherford
about "OS/2 Update Wizard Word A":
 RC>> It's really poor terminology.  The port is going to stay at whatever
 RC>> speed you set it to - there's no command to "lock" it.  In reality,
 RC>> you're telling the comm software not to change the port speed.
 TR> This is true of *real* DOS, but I'm not sure it's true of the
 TR> ports driven by SIO/VSIO for OS/2 native mode and DOS sessions
 ml> if you don't have a port speed specified on the SIO command line in
 ml> the CONFIG.SYS, the the port is "floating" as far as OS/2 and SIO are
 ml> concerned.
 ml> ie: DEVICE=D:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM1,3F8,4,-)
 ml> (COM2:115200,2F8,3,-)
 ml> (COM3:115200,3E8,7:4,-)
 ml> (COM4,INTERNET:2E8,NONE:3,-)
 ml> (COM5,INTERNET:1F8,NONE:3,-)
 ml> (COM6,INTERNET:1E8,NONE:3,-)
 ml> (COM7,INTERNET:4F8,NONE:3,-)
 ml> (COM8,INTERNET:4E8,NONE:3,-)
 ml> COM1 is floating, COM2 and COM3 are locked at 115200 and the other
 ml> five ports are virtual modems ;-)
Yikes!  You *are* a Sysop, aren't you?  :-)  Well, I'm still not sure
about the Vmodems, unless you are connected to the Internet by way of
Ethernet or other such high-speed connection.
      -=> Tom Rutherford -- Team OS/2 <=-
... Entered: 01-01-1980 at 00:00-I GOTTA get me a new battery
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