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From: cho@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Sehyeong Cho)
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Subject: Re: Communications & mouse into one serial port
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Date: 10 Apr 91 15:24:39 GMT
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In article <1264@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> carterp@deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Carter) writes:
>I have a PC with one serial port which I use for both communications
>and the mouse (obviously not both at the same time).
>
>Whenever I need to switch from communications to the mouse, or vice versa,
>I have to switch off the PC, swap cables to the serial port and reboot.
>
>QUESTION.  Is there any way of avoiding the reboot? Is there any software
>that might help?
>
My Question: Have you ever tried not booting?  I mean, just change the
cables and run the program?
Isn't your comm. software (or mouse driver) supposed to know how to initialize
the port?

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