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From: tierney@belegost.endor.cs.psu.edu (Michael B Tierney)
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Subject: Problem: COM3/4 not available in 386 Mode?!?
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Date: 7 Feb 91 07:10:29 GMT
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Any attempt to access the modem in 386 Enhanced yields the warning 
"COM4 is in use by a DOS application", however in standard or real modes,
COM4 is accessed without problem.  It did the same for a test of the modem
on COM3.  I noticed that COM4 is not listed in the 386 Enhanced Control 
Panel's Device Contention entry.  Is there any way to sneak it in there?  
I R'd TFM.. no help,  Will re-installing windows (ugh!) solve the problem?
Thanks for any help you can give,

                                                       Mike

BTW, the system is a Compuadd 320 w/ 4 megs RAM, but I SERIOUSLY doubt this
is system dependent.

--
Mike Tierney                 "The sport is War, total war, when the end's
tierney@endor.cs.psu.edu     a massacre, the final swing is not a drill,
MBT3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU           it's how many people I can kill."
mbt@ECLU.psu.edu                          -Tom Arayas & Jeff Hanneman