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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: "Sorry, the communications port is busy..."
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.183247.27154@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 90 18:32:47 GMT
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A few days ago I posted a message regarding a problem I was having with the
modem port of my Mac SE. When I tried to run Versaterm, it gave me an error
about how the modem port was in use and so it couldn't use it.

A later posting stated that this is because of the MIDI/Chooser bug - something
caused by using the chooser while running a program that uses the MIDI
manager. And the solution posed was sort of haphazard- although I got a 
variation of it to finally fix the problem: open and close the chooser once
while in your MIDI program.

This did finally work, but only after I'd tried a lot of other things- 
including booting off a totally different system (disconnecting the old one), 
running the comm. program off the original copy, and even resetting the PRAM
(not to mention multiple power on/offs).

The QUESTION I have is:

Where was this information that the modem port was busy stored????


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/   Peter Commons			"Zut, alors! I have meesed one!!!"    /
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