Hi! Simon,

On 23 Oct 96  17:54:46, Simon Byrnand whispered to Paul Quinn:

 SB> Once apon a time Paul Quinn said, 'Modem Troubles' to John Piper...
 PQ> Oops, then he'll have other problems when the BIOS/Windows can't find
 PQ> COM3 and will allocate the COM3 base address against COM4.  :)
 PQ> A good alternative is to set the existing COM2 as COM4 and install the
 PQ> internal as COM2.

 SB> Bad alternative IMHO. Especially with Windows 95 - it does NOT
[ ...trim... ]
 SB> Win95 gets upset by the IRQ clash between COM3 and COM1 even though
 SB> COM1 may be unused.

I've read your notes a couple of times now and every time I do read it I feel
exhausted.  :)

What you have said may indeed be technically correct, but I thought we were
talking about WFWG 3.11, and, I only wanted to indicate to John that there was
a simpler solution without too many un-intended side-effects.

Cheers,
Paul.


... "Ah!  Now that's entertainment!" -- Vlad the Impaler.
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