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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: "The communications port is busy...???"
Message-ID: <1990Mar18.233326.29903@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 90 23:33:26 GMT
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I tried running Versaterm from my Mac SE at home the other day- to connect via
modem to the campus network and got a "sorry- the communications port is busy"
error. No matter what I tried, Versaterm refused to try to dial out. The
same problem occurred when I ran another piece of communications software.

Not knowing what was wrong, I tried all the typical things- restarting the mac,
then booting off of a floppy... I even reset the PRAM. Nothing worked, though.

What does this mean and how do I clear the communications port? My most typical
modem port functions are modem communications and MIDI, but recently I got 
Prodigy. Does anyone know what might have caused this? 


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/   Peter Commons			"Zut, alors! I have meesed one!!!"    /
/   commons@cs.stanford.edu						      /
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