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From: burkley@cod.NOSC.MIL (V. J. Burkley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Running Terminal in 386 mode
Message-ID: <2469@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 19 Nov 90 04:46:46 GMT
References: <10112@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <421@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Reply-To: burkley@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (V. J. Burkley)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <421@nwnexus.WA.COM> kelpie@nwnexus.WA.COM (Anthony C. Garland) writes:
>chen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Hua Chen) writes:
>>Dear netters:
>>Helps needed in running Terminal in 386 ehanced mode.
>>Internal modem on COM3 works fine in standard mode.  But every time I 
>>started Termnal in 386 mode, got a message "Com3 is used by DOS 
>>application...", the box title says "Device Conflict".  Am I missing 
>>something in setting?
>
>>I am using a Gateway2000 386SX with 2MB RAM
>
Several answers have been posted answering this problem involving
adding the line COM3Base=3E8h to the system.ini file.  Well I tried this
and all I have been able to acheive is a very quit exit from windows when
I try and tell terminal I want to use com3 (where my modem is).  Also the
system roboots just to show it cares about me.  Terminal will run if
windows is started with win /r.  The modem is a BSM and my computer is
a Northgate 33 Mhz job.  The modem works fine with the BITCOM software
it comes with.  Other fun is even when terminal is running it constantly
thinks it is online.  I can type in the dialing command and it works
but terminal wont let me use the dial command.  Weird.  I have other
terminal programs that do WORK but I am curious if anyone else has
seen/solved this particular variant on this windows bug.  Email is fine.
Thanks in advance.

					-Joe 
					burkley@cod.nosc.mil