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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
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Subject: Re: Windows and COM3
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.204207.17906@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 20:42:07 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.174342.19803@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>*>>   I have the same setup generally (mouse on com2: printer on com1: and
>*>>   modem on com3:), but I can't print to com1: if my modem is on-line
>*>>   through WinQVT.  (I have an AT-class machine.)
>
>*>>Could this be an IRQ conflict ?  Both COM1 and COM3 use IRQ4 !
>
>*>Could be.  Any suggested solutions?  Can interrupt requests be changed?
>
>
>In PC Magazine Feb. 26th 1991:
>
>include the line:
>
>SetIRQSharing=1
>
>in your SYSTEM.INI.

Isn't that line

COMIRQSharing=1

?

Also, doesn't it need to go in the [386Enh] section of SYSTEM.INI, or does
the placement matter?

I saw both the above in PC Mag, but I don't have the actual mag in front of me
(just my notes). I may have copied the info down wrong.


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Scott Coleman                                                    tmkk@uiuc.edu

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