On Monday, October 07 1996, Ian Smith wrote to Frank Iuston ...

Following up Ian Smith's addenda to John Piper's thorough advice:

 JP> Here is what you should do: Provided that you DON'T use COM2 for anything
 JP> at all, configure your modem to use COM4. COMs 2 and 4 share the same IRQ,
 JP> so provided that you have nothing plugged into COM2, COM4 is free for use.

 IS> As is COM2 itself

Yes, of course , but I figured it best to configure the
internal modem for COM4, just in case Frank ever did take my (biased)
advice and bought an external modem, which he would plug straight into
COM2. By configuring the internal modem as COM4, he'll save himself from
fiddling around in order to disable COM2 on his standard serial card.

 JP> Here's one last (and rather biased) piece of advice: ditch

 IS> 



John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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