Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!barry
From: barry@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Lay)
Subject: Windows and COM3
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.190322.22184@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: mouse COM3
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 1991 19:03:22 GMT

I have been following the discussion on the use of COM3 and COM4 with
applications in Windows.  Now, can the mouse be placed on COM3 so that a
modem can go on COM1?  I have set up my PC with a modem on COM1, the mouse
(Microsoft) on COM3, and COM2 missing (it is a bizarre serial card).  Some
applications work fine (Shanghai, for instance) with the mouse, and the modem
appears fine on COM1 now, but Windows will not recognise the mouse.  Neither
will my own programs which use the mouse (under DOS, not Windows).  I would
have thought that MOUSE.COM goes looking for the mouse on all of the COMx
ports, then installs itself as INT 33 so that Windows doesn't have to worry
about where the mouse really is.  Is it perhaps running into trouble with 
the missing COM2?  If so, how do I fix this?

Barry