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From: tkopp@carroll1.UUCP (Tom Kopp)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Switching COM: Ports
Summary: DOS assign command
Message-ID: <412@carroll1.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 07:28:12 GMT
References: <9593@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: tkopp@carroll1.UUCP (Tom Kopp)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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In article <9593@dasys1.UUCP> jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt) asks: 
>Is there a way to fake out a PC into talking to a different COM port?

The dos assign command should work.  I've seen it used to tell something to
send to COM1 everything that was supposed to go to lpt: so your mileage may
vary.

Basically, before you are going to use the modem, enter the following line:

assign com1 = com2

If this doesn't work, reverse the com1 and com2.  I haven't used the command
for a long time, so....


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