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From: n117be@tamuts.tamu.edu (Eugenio Ulian)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows and COM3
Keywords: mouse COM3
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Date: 13 Feb 91 18:28:45 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.190322.22184@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> barry@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Lay) writes:
>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
I was having problems with my com3, my internal modem, and Terminal until
yesterday. I called Microsoft and they faxed me a few problem solving sheets
for the message that reads: "The port is being used by a DOS application" or
something like that.
I went through their instructions step by step and after 6 months I am finally
able to use Terminal.
I had called them before, and the answer I got at that time (6 months ago) was
that I wouldn't be able to use my com3 since my machine did not have micro
chaneling ? capability. I guess they are learning to fix their bugs.

Eugenio Ulian
ecu7967@tamvenus