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Message-ID: <35E9747E.B7AEDED7@unb.ca>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:49:18 -0300
From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: reading/writing to COM ports
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980830183518 DOT 20257w-100000 AT is>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >       I've never had a modem that ran on COM1.  I think that conflicts with my
> > mouse.  I always use COM3.
> Then stdaux won't help.  But you always can say something like this:
>         FILE *com3 = fopen ("COM3", "wb");
> and then use com3 as usual.
	I'm quite sure that won't work, because I have a 'WinModem'.  I've never been
able to get it to work from DOS.  It doesn't use a standard address (like
0x110 or something).
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