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From: kirk%enterprise@Sun.COM ('Captain' Kirk DeHaan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: telix and com3
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Date: 17 Mar 89 16:48:03 GMT
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I recently bought an internal 2400b modem.  I also have 2 com
ports in my system.  My problem is that I want to maintain the
two RS-232 ports as com1 and com2 while having the modem at
com3.  Using procomm+ allows me to do just this but a problem
arises when trying to dial in to a unix system.  Regardless
of the settings I get nothing but garbage from the unix system.
If I move the modem to com1 or com2 and use telix it works great.
The modem internal with procomm+ works fine when calling all
the other systems I have access to.  

I guess I have two questions then.

1.  Is there a fix for the procomm+ problem?  I'm not sure what the
cause is but it is definately related to procomm+.  Using a
different modem (USR Courier) gives the same problem.

2.  Can Telix (3.11) be made to work with com3?  The docs say yes but
trying to do so results in a hung system.  Looking at the telix.cnf file
shows the values assigned to the port addresses but I can't
figure out how they are used.  They are listed as 1000 for com1 and
1016 for com3. 

BTW, I would prefer to use Telix.  It has zmodem capabilities built
in and seems to have the bells and whistles I desire.

I am new to DOS so any help would be appreciated.


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