Bryan wrote:

Hi Paul-
I have PC Check somewhere - I will have to scratch around but I aint
forgotten !  IIRC the irfra- red port is usually on COM2  & most probably
assigned to the IR interface by default !  COM1 should be there for you if
you boot off a Dos Floppy - Try FreeDos or Xdos -

Oh - I guess you heard how MS wanted to lose  the serial ports totally on the
97 spec !

more later - Bryan

DOS Quick BASIC, which Ed and I are using to do the real time data acq,
can only address COM1 and COM2 so I found a routine in Eathan Winer's
book on how to poke data into a memory location and reassign COM3 and COM4
to COM1 or COM2. If anybody is interested let me know and I will
scan in the details. You too Ed.

It sure is a pity that Ethan has mostly stopped doing QuickBasic  programming.
Royce

 
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