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From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: comm conflicts in enhanced mode
Message-ID: <3308@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 21:34:51 GMT
References: <1990Sep7.013045.13691@amd.com>
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:

>I have two DOS apps, qmodem and kermit (the non-window one) that I
>like to use together. I get qmodem to dial the phone for me and
>go through the complicated login process, then exit qmodem and
>start kermit up. This all works fine under DOS. This does not work
>if I have two Win3 enhanced mode full screen windows, one for qmodem
>and one for kermit. The problem is that when I exit qmodem and close
>the window, something (Win3?) drops DTR on the modem and it hangs up.

>Also, if I just leave the qmodem window alive and try to open the
>kermit window, Win3 complains about a conflict on the comm port.
>It asks me which app should get it but no matter which app I
>select, the machine hangs.

>Any suggestions?

Have you tried to set COM1AutoAssign to zero? The description in
SYSINI2.TXT says that the value 0 allows more than one application to use
the port concurrently.

Wolfgang Strobl
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