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From: hfreedman@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problems w/ Win 3 and communications
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.223625.4303@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 29 Dec 90 05:36:25 GMT
Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
Lines: 52

I am having a problem using any communications package within
Windows 3. Same or similar problems occur with Procomm Plus,
PC Anywhere, and even Windows Terminal.  I cannot seem to
configure these to use COMM 4 where my external modem resides.
No problem using these in DOS. Error messages upon Windows
configuration refer to Comm Port assigned to a DOS application. Mouse
also hangs.

CONTENTS OF AUTOEXEC.BAT

SET GMK4=C:\G4\          | FOR GRAMMATIK
@ECHO OFF
SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
VERIFY OFF
PATH
C:\dos;\mouse;\windows;\toolbook;\wp51;\qpro;\bat;\symph;C:\G4;
APPEND /E
APPEND C:\DOS
set temp=c:\windows\temp
PROMPT $P$G
VER

CONTENTS OF CONFIG.SYS

files= 30
BREAK=ON
BUFFERS=20
LASTDRIVE=E
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /P /E:256
INSTALL=C:\DOS\FASTOPEN.EXE C:=(50,25)
device=C:\himem.sys
device=C:\WINDOWS\smartdrv.sys 2048 512

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

80386
640 K BASE MEMORY
3072 K EXTENDED MEMORY
2 SERIAL PORTS
1 PARALLEL PORT
BANK 0/1 DRAM 1 MEG 0 W/S
BANK 2/3 DRAM DISABLED 0 W/S
MEMORY INTERLEAVE DISABLED
SHADOW RAM C0000H, 16K ENABLED
SHADOW RAM C4000H, 16K ENABLED
SHADOW RAM FOOOOH, 64K ENABLED
 
2400 BAUD EXTERNAL MODEM ON COMM 4
MICROSOFT COMPATIBLE MOUSE ON COMM 1

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks