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From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Crossposters and Evangelists...STOP NOW
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:09:53 GMT


 (paraphrase) I love OS2... 
> so that my work...[CAN (ed.)]...get done.
> 
> John W. Linville
> 
Dear John (and other crossposters and evangelists):

[Flame on

I might ask how much work you (plural) _are_ getting done what with 
posting on the OS2 groups, some pc groups and this windows group, but 
that would be tacky, personal, unprofessional, and totally lacking in 
net courtesy.  Besides, I'm not your supervisor/employer.

Flame off]

A number of people have been posting and evangelizing for OS2 in this 
group.  I ask politely.

PLEASE STOP IT.

Newsgroups are formed to promote communication and information flow 
between persons with common interests.  You (plural) do not have 
common interests with this group.  Or certainly don't to the extent 
you've (plural) been monopolizing space of late.  And it wastes time 
to discover that the post is irrelevant as OS2 is not put into the header 
in very many instances.  And 'get OS2' is certainly inappropriate as 
a reply to questions which should be asked in this group.  Though 
_not_ if the same question is asked in an OS2 group.

POST INTO AREAS OF COMMON INTEREST.

When I want to check out information about OS2, I do a really funny 
thing...I access the OS2 groups, ask a question or two, and generally browse.

I HAVE.  TRUST ME.  IT REALLY WASN'T THAT HARD.  THE NET SYSTEM MAKES 
IT RATHER EASY TO DO.  AND, I DARE SAY THE MAJORITY OF INTERNET USERS 
HAVE MASTERED THE IDEA OF ACCESSING AN APPROPRIATE GROUP AS NEED AND 
INTEREST DICTATES.  TRUST THE SYSTEM, IT REALLY DOES WORK, YOU (plural) 
KNOW.

Finally, there is this thing called net courtesy.  I broke it above for 
good reason (to make a point) and bad (to relieve tension and anger).  

BUT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES OF NET COURTESY IS THAT YOU 
(plural) DON'T POST INAPPROPRIATELY.  DOING SO WASTES THE TIME OF 
LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

If you (plural) feel a burning need to evangelize, why not post a monthly 
SHORT greeting and invitation to browse in OS2 groups along with an 
appropriate header? Even this is inappropriate, but at least it would 
allow crossposters and evangelists to relieve _their_ tension without 
wasting my time and that of others.

In summary...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.  CA SUFFIT.  GO AWAY.  VA-T'EN.  STOP.  ARRET.

If anyone feels a burning need to reply _don't_ post.  Send me e-mail 
so I can delete it without wasting even more time and bandwidth.  
(It's tax time in Canada, and what time I have to spare after them is 
not going to be spent on this drivel.)

John Garland
jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
From: todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Subject: Win 3.1 Sound Recorder not recognized as a server?
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:01:45 GMT

I just installed Windows 3.1 yesterday (4/6) and am having a problem with
the Sound Recorder (I have a SoundBlaster Pro). When I start up Sound
Recorder I get a message saying that Windows does not recognize it as a
"server" (I assume the message really means DDE or OLE type server) and
that I should reinstall Windows. The applications comes up after the
message and can record from the SoundBlaster Pro's microphone input.
However, when I try to embed the recorded sound into an application (say
Write), the linkage is apparently created, but clicking on the embedded
icon does not play the sound.

Can anyone tell me how to make the Sound Recorder recognized as a server
without reinstalling all of Windows 3.1?
--
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii
UUCP:		{uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhunix!todd
BITNET:		todd@uhunix
INTERNET:	todd@uhunix.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU
From: stevey@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Yegge)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Bugs - Threat or Menace?
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:38:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Apr8.214033.26879@ms.uky.edu> jkvanm00@nx29.mik.uky.edu (jonathan van meter) writes:
>> >>Failure of the DOS program Eye of the Beholder to load
>> >In a window or full screen? Trying to run a game as fancy as EOB under
>> >Windows is asking for trouble. Most games are less carefully debugged
>> >than most apps (although I'm beginning to wonder...), and many of them
>> >do "unexpected" things to wring the max performance from a system.
>> >Windows may not be able to handle this. [Wing Commander II can be
>> >multi-tasked under OS/2 ok, though! or so I've been told... :^)]
>> -Anthony Francis
>> --
>anthony--
>
>	I haven't tried eob 1 or 2 under windows 3.1 but I have successfully  
>run Ultima Underworld with ZERO problems.  It's alittle slow but then again  
>it's kinda slow in plan dos too.  The dos window in 3.1 is FAR better than the  
>windows 3.0 window.
>
>Jonathan

Are you running it in a window?  I can't seem to get VGA graphics to work
under 3.1 in a DOS window.  I tried it with, hmm...EOB II, I think.  I 
didn't try it with Ultima Underworld since I've heard the double-buffering
between UW's cacher and Smartdrv.exe can screw up your save files.

I get the "can't run this baby except in full-screen" message that I used
to get in 3.0, and it suspends until I hit alt+enter.  I'm running at
1024x768x256 on an Orchid Prodesigner IIs.  Can I get VGA graphics to work
in DOS windows at this screen resolution?  Help, anybody?

Steve Yegge
stevey@cs.washington.edu
From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word for Windows is the greatest. (Not at Microsoft)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 09:56:24 PDT
Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

In article <1992Apr7.095332.2308@hemlock.cray.com>, snowden@cray.com (Jim Snowden) writes:
> In article <1992Apr7.131856.20251@alw.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
> 
> >Even more interisting, this suggests that this was produced by a 32-bit
> >version of Pagemaker running on NT.  Perhaps Microsoft may be closer to
> >dropping the NT bombshell on OS/2 2.0 than we have been led to
> >believe and with a whole slew of 'NT' specific applications at the same
> >time.
> I doubt it.
> Jim Snowden

I beg to differ. I heard this from the horses ... err, sorry Bill ... Bill's
mouth:  50 software developers have been doing NT apps for the past 6 months.

Even though Microsoft should (and probably will) do a thorough beta-test of
12 months,  that 12 months should (quote the same source) begin this July.

Now about that NT for big guys only.  Everybody seems to be telling me in
private conversations that the "$n*100" pricetag is just a smokescreen.
But who knows.  Microsoft does have an ex-IBM'r in it's leadership team
(Steve Ballmer,  if I recall right) who's familiar with the success that
high priced OS's have (read: the OS/2 flop due to a high price tag).

Maybe you'd like to take a look at the post I left on 4/7/92 regarding
the Win 3.1 announcement.  And if you can talk a Microsoft spokesperson in
to giving you a video of the 3.1 release show,  you might feel a bit more
positive.  (BTW,  I've only seen "not a Microsoft spokesperson" tags around
here... if they are not,  who is this magical "spokesperson" then?  Does
Microsoft have 10^n+1 employees and none of them authorized to talk in the
official sense?)

Aki.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: MS W4W 2.0 and WIN 3.1 -- Install the TrueType Fonts!
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:43:09 GMT

btsg6965@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Briand T Sanderson) writes:

>I just finished installing Win 3.1 today. I thought I'd post a suggestion
>for those of you who use the Equation Editor under Word For Windows. You will
>need to copy the TRUETYPE version of the MT Extra and Fences Fonts from Disk
>3 of the Word for Win disks. These will need to be decompressed. Then use the
>control panel to install the two TrueType fonts. Now all will be okay with
>the Equation editor.
[...]

Thanks. Here are some more details.

The TT fonts are on the W4W's disks (I was looking on the Win 3.1 disks).
They are on disk #3, in subdirectory "equation".
There names are "fences.tt$" and "mtextra.tt$".
The decompression program is on W4W disk #1, and is "decomp.exe"

- Carl



--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From: quinlan@coral.bucknell.edu (QUINLAN, DANIEL JOSEPH)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Truetype Fonts?  The agony of switching away from Adobe
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:13:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1


I like the new truetype system, but as I am sure other users have
noticed, it only comes with a few fonts unless you order the extras
from MS...Anyway here is what I have to ask...

1)  Where are some good sites for TT fonts?  I found a few at
    wuarchive.wustl.edu under the mirrors/win31/fonts/truetype
    directory, which brings up another question about those fonts:
	a) How do you change the name of fonts such that you dont get
 	   names like "Dubiel (Plain):001.001" evidently this font
	   was converted from something, and the name didn't come out
	   too well...?

2)  How can u convert Adobe to TT (is there a PD or Shareware
	program somewhere?)?

3)  Is it possible to convert Mac TT to Win 3.1 TT, and if so, how?


If you would please mail me responses if you have any good answers
and I'll post a summary (honest, I will!) here, esp. since I don't
check the news groups out every day...

  	- Dan -
From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Boo Hiss MicroSoft
Date: 7 Apr 1992 16:54:55 GMT
Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: pilsner.geo.brown.edu
Keywords: Marketing Scam

In article <j8h2b9o@dragon.wpd.sgi.com> daveb@merlin.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Babcock) writes:
>My gripe is that MicroSoft made a big deal and got a lot of free press on
>the "All pre-ordered upgrades will arrive by 10am Monday" announcement.
>
>It was a lie.
...
>When MicroSoft promises something I used to believe them.  I thought they had
>more class.

<SARCASM ON>

   Yeah, what he said, only double.  All I received was a delivery
attempt notice from FedEx, and I have no idea whether it was before
or after 10 am.  Now, I won't see it until about 5:30 PM on the day
*after* it was supposed to be in my hands!  And they *know* I do my
laundry on Tuesdays, so I can't install it until *fifty-eight* *full*
*hours* after the alleged delivery date!  The *nerve* of Microsoft
to make such a promise!  I hate those bastards!

<SARCASM OFF>
--
Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
plutchak@porter.geo.brown.edu -or- PGGIPL::PLUTCHAK (VMS: Just say NO!)
Favorite sci.geo.meteorology quote: "Joel dissipated over China on 7 September."
From: smithh@bcsaic.UUCP (Lonnie Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Win 3.0 & AT&T 6300PLUS
Keywords: Windows 3.0, HIMEM.SYS, Extended memory
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:13:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boeing Computer Services ATC, Seattle

Has anyone out there successfully gotten Windows 3.0 to
run in standard mode on an AT&T 6300Plus?

On my system it consistently fails after the opening
screen (... the one that puts 8" high Windows 3.0 on
the screen ...) except when run in real mode.

I have worked with the Microsoft tech folks to find a
solution.  For example I have done the following:

1. Checked the memory board switches (its all extended memory)

2. set DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /machine:att6300plus in config.sys

3. Observed the correct messages at boot up, e.g.,

     .... A20 ... number 5 ...

But it just never works.  If someone out there has any tips
or better yet has been successful please let me know.  It has
been really frustrating to have that machine and its 5MB of
memory wasting away.  My system is absolutely stock AT&T parts.
I'm now running DOS 5.0 and it is working fine.

Thanks in advance . . . Lonnie Smith
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: cummings@epik.enet.dec.com (Jerry M. Cummings)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: DEC's Free Compose Utility
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:18:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

>PC Magazine (April 28) has an article in First Looks, page 54, about a free
>utility allowing the composition of characters, like in WP, in any Windows
>program.  It is being distributed as CMPKIT.ZIP or COMPOS.ZIP.  Anybody
>know where to get it?
>

cica.cica.indiana.edu's pub/pc/win3/fonts/cmps1_32.zip

I haven't read the article, but if it references CMPSKIT.ZIP, it's a little
out of date. I released the latest version a few weeks ago.

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Digital Equipment Corporation
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: bzb47596@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Phaedrus)
Subject: Re: Adlib under Win 3.1?!?!?!?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:16:42 GMT

cvance@vesta.unm.edu (Chad Vance) writes:

>What is the Adlib driver under Windows 3.1 usefor if you can't use
>the .wav files?  WHy can a SIMPLE built in PC speaker use the .wav
>files but the Adlib can't?  I don't get it!  

>Or am I installing the Adlib driver wrong?  HELP!!!!

I have the same occurance with the AdLib driver. It would seem like
the silly thing should be able to play the .wav files through the
AdLib, I've had games that play digitized sound through it. Please
email me if someone has the answer to this.

Thanks.
-- 
Phaedrus - Master of the Tao of Pooh             internet: phaedrus@uiuc.edu 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous,
      the sensible man hardly anything."   --Goethe
From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: The Windows 3.1 Casualty List
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:17:10 GMT
Reply-To: drp@dosbears.uucp
Organization: DosBears

In article <1992Mar26.023328.926@silma.com> yukit@.UUCP () writes:
>This is from the March 23rd issue of PC WEEK.
>It includes a list of software that "... may
>experience application errors, problems resizing
>windows and printing files.  User will either
>have to go to the application vendors to obtain
>upgrades or have to change system configuration
>options ...."
>
>Adobe TypeAlign

The problem here is worse than "...may experience...problems...."
If you're not running the latest TypeAlign (2.1?), you must delete
the load=talgndll.exe before windows will run.  See apps.hlp for
more info.

--
                 David R. Preston      drp@dosbears.uucp
              Information gladly given but safety requires
               the avoidance of unnecessary conversation.
            D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA
From: tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 with Adlib card
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:58:53 GMT
Reply-To: tanida@esosun.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
In-reply-to: stephane@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Stephane Vachon)

In article <stephane.702840185@tdsb-s>, stephane@mais (Stephane Vachon) writes:
>Hi folks,
>
>Ok, i have an Adlib sound card with Windows 3.1 and it seems
>to work correctly with the midi mapper but i can't make it work
>with the (.wav) files.  I can't select any event or any of the
>system sound files (.wav).  Also, when i execute the media player
>the only device available is midi player with the (.mid) files.

*.WAV files are digitized files.   To play them you need a sound card
with a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter).  The Adlib doesn't have
a DAC, so Windows (correctly) assumes you don't have the capability.
Cards like the SoundBlaster (and clones thereof) can play *.WAV files,
and the wave (no pun intended) of Multimedia sound cards coming out now will
be able to as well.

-Tom
tanida@esosun.css.gov
From: slh@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Steven Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WINDOWS 3.1 & com ports
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:15:19 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ


Does WIN 3.1 have better com port support than 3.0, specifically,
does it allow use of ports 3 and 4?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.1, DOS windows, mice and video drivers
From: furlong@mdcbbs.com (Carey Furlong)
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:03:37 GMT
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: furlong

In article <26@sandnet.ucsd.edu>, hughesr@SANDNET.UCSD.EDU (Richard Hughes) writes:
> 
>           In 386 enhanced mode, Win 3.1 will smoothly transfer the
>           windows mouse cursor into a DOS window providing that the
>           new mouse.sys or mouse.com driver (disk 4) is manually
>           installed *and* providing you use one of the supplied video
>           drivers.

	Maybe I don't understand your post, but I did not have to manually
	install the mouse drivers that came with 3.1. They installed
	themselves. And the old mouse drivers were present in my Windows
	directory. I also am still using an old 600x800 video driver that I 
	got from the Paradise BBS. Despite both of these things, I now
	(with Win 3.1) can use my mouse inside of a DOS window.
-
                             "Excellent Kassim. You have served me well"
                             ---------- Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves ---
       ---- Carey ----
    Carey Furlong, Huntington Beach, CA; Compu$erve 70531,2753;
    Prodigy TXST34A
From: skelly@bucknell.edu (sean kelly `94)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: A colored background instead of a BMP?????
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:29:53 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.

In article <1992Apr5.041254.25197@ra.msstate.edu>, dmd2@ra.msstate.edu (David Dumas) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know how to get a colored background in windows?  I'm talking about
> the area that the wallpaper covers.
Just load config, select the colors item, go 'define colors' or some such, click on the sample desktop (what you want to change) aned click the color you want from the color selection, then save the config!

Sean
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: floydb@rpi.edu 
Subject: Re: Why I hate [insert here] (this newsgroup)
Reply-To: floydb@rpi.edu 
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Admin. 
Distribution: world 
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:13:52 GMT

sarcasm=on

Reffering back to a previous posting, I wish there was a weenie
factor of only 5%-10% instead of the 30%-50% persistently
posting inflammatory/emotive articles.
 
Lets vote on adding comp.windows.ms.weenies with the goal
of moving two thirds of the weenie posts to the new
group, thus reducing the weenie factor on comp.windows.ms
to 5%-10%.
 
if this is not an attractive option, lets vote on creating
a half dozen more narrowly defined groups as subsets of
comp.windows.ms and let the weenies post to this group
(with the effect of having a weenie outlet and a weenie
factor of only 5%-10% on each to subset group).
 
sarcasm=always on

barry
 
ps

 
how many of you people are effectively getting paid to
From: angab@acad2.alaska.edu (Gerry Busch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: TrueType in different directory?
Date: 12 Apr 92 13:35:38 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska

Is is possible to install the True Type Font Pack into a different directory
than Windows is in?  I couldn't figure it out from the manual.  If so, how?

Gerry Busch
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: johnson@epoch.enet.dec.com (Pete Johnson)
Subject: W3.1 Terminal can't see my COM2 port
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 17 APR 92 07:49:14    

I have an AST P/E386SX/20, mouse port, COM1, internal modem is COM2. I use
Procomm Plus which works fine inside and outside Windows 3.1. But when I try to
tell Windows' terminal to use COM2, it tells me that "The selected COM port is
either not supported or is being used by another device. Select another port." 

The base addresses and IRQ's match, and nothing else is running that might
contend for the port (that I know of, anyway).

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Pete Johnson - DEC, Marlboro, MA USA
Internet: johnson@epoch.enet.dec.com
UUCP:  ...!decwrl!epoch.enet!johnson
CIS: 72557,61
From: Lowey@Sask.USask.CA (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why I hate [insert here] (this newsgroup)
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:52:19 GMT
Reply-To: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Originator: lowey@jester.usask.ca

I tried to reply to this message in mail, but the return address
"dmmatt@bigez" was not a valid return address.

From article <1992Apr13.081622.1@bigez>, by dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix):

> God I hate doing this.  I have been trying to not fuel the flames
> but, this is not (I repeat NOT) an OS/2 news group.  Most of the

That is why I've tried to be careful to limit my comments only to
comparing the OS/2 implementation of MS-Windows with the MS-Windows
product.  You no longer need to be running the MS-Windows product in
order to run MS-Windows applications.

> people who used to read this newsgroup are using Windows not OS/2.  I
> for one have an extremely good reason for it, it supports my network
> (DECs Pathworks) and OS/2 V2.0 does not.  I am sure many of the other

Umm, sorry to correct you.  I'm entering this message on a machine
running OS/2 2.0 beta 6.177, and Pathworks for OS/2 version 2.0.  You
are correct that it does not run out of the box.  I had to get the
redirector from the IBM Lan Services for OS/2 2.0.  Also, my LAT and
LAD services don't work.  However, SETHOST still runs on CTERM, and I
can still use my file services, and NFT, etc.  Instructions on how to
do this were posted in vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks, and I think
comp.os.os2.misc recently.

- Kevin Lowey
-- 
OS/2 2.0 comes with DOS 5.0 and Windows.  Windows comes with a disclaimer.  
Any questions?     - juan@noyles.pha.pa.us (Juan Jose T. Noyles)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: rich@island.COM (Rich Fanning)
Subject: TrueType Fonts not found
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:34:07 GMT

I just installed Win 3.1, and have a problem with TrueType fonts (Arial, etc.)
They appear to be installed correctly; they show up in the Control Panel Fonts
list.

If I open Paintbrush, it finds Arial, Times New Roman, etc.  But none
of my other apps can find them:  Windows Write and Word Perfect for Windows.

I could understand why WP Windows might not find them, but certainly
Windows Write should.  Why does Paintbrush find them and Windows Write not?

I'm going to try reinstalling the fonts and see what happens.  Anyone
else have this problem?
-- 

     Rich Fanning       {sun,uunet}!island!rich
			    rich@island.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
Subject: Re: Why go to 3.1 if 2.0 works
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:20:58 GMT

rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:

>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>: 
>: By the same argument, Windows won't go anywhere either. It defaults to 2e8 on
>: Com3 and 2e0 on Com4. I don't know about the rest of the world, but my machine
>: thinks otherwise. So Com3 and Com4 wouldn't work until I changed the sys.ini
>: file.........
>:  
>
>Steve, sorry guy but I am composing this from a DOS window of WIN3.0 using
>my comm software.  I only needed to tell my comm software that my modem was
>on com3 at irq7 and address 3e8.  I didn't have to do anything to windows.
            ^^^^
>My comm software also knows this in a DOS window of OS/2 but that's not good
>enough.

Bob:

OS/2 uses IRQ7 to print, whereas DOS doesn't.  Those with printers and
Soundblasters often have a conflict too because the SB's default is
IRQ7 (I moved mine to IRQ5).  Could this be your problem?  Just a guess.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms