Hi! Arthur,

On 16 Oct 96  14:51:38, Arthur Marsh whispered to Paul Quinn:

 AM> On Sat 12 Oct at 03:41 Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to John Piper:
 PQ> Also, a lot of software has difficulties dealing with
 PQ> internals set as COM4. Case in point: a BNU/FrontDoor
 PQ> setup on a spare 2400 internal that I have will not work
 PQ> and I don't have any gaps in port allocation -
 PQ> FrontDoor spits the dummy every time.

 AM> Wow, I've set BNU using BNUPORT to use a serial port on a 16 port dumb
 AM> digiboard and simply told Binkleyterm to use port 10 (-:.

I don't doubt it, mate.

When I tried the above, I just changed the FD setup for the port and the BNU
command-line - no weird IRQs or anything of the like - just substituting COM4
for COM2; it's just the hardware mix, here, I'm sure.

Cheers,
Paul.


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