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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst
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Date: 9 Jan 89 13:28:16 GMT
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In article <1284@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
>In article <216100074@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:

>>Telix 3.11 - This is the most incredible piece of shareware I have ever had a
>>chance to use and as a telecom package it leaves Procomm+ in its dust.

>I got a copy of Telix to look over -- and wiped it off my disk fifteen
>minutes later as being worthless. Why? My modem is on COM4. Telix, in
>its infinite wisdom, requires the modem to be either COM1 or COM2. I

First, I market my own COM software, so I would be the last to push
Telix on people :-).  I have seen Telix however and it is a good product.

My COM software, and many others, do not support COM3 or COM4, since 
there is no definition of COM3 or COM4.  The addresses and interrupt
vectors used depend entirely on the board you are using.  With no
standard, it is hard to write a program that will use them.  Granted,
the addressess of each installed COM port are supposed to appear in
some place in the BIOS data area (I forget where exactly), but this
is not always so.  And it doesn't tell you anything about interrupts.

Just thought I'd add my 2 cents worth.

Stefan Vorkoetter
(smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu)