Switching COM: Ports

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From: Joe Zitt
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 12:54

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Is there a way to fake out a PC into talking to a different COM port?
 
Here's the situation: I have what looks like a really neat Unix Mail clone.
Unfortunately, the code is hard-wired to use COM1:. Since my )!(@*#&$^% MIDI
board is also hard-wired to COM1:, I had to put my modem on COM2:.
 
Is there a way to get the software to talk to the other port, either through
a small resident or something else?

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Joe Zitt     *      {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2}!dasys1!jzitt     *     Big Electric Cat 
PAM Repertory Company	    also: (killer,uunet,psuvax}!cbis3!elephant!zitt!joe
imagine the clouds dripping. dig a hole in your garden to put them in. yoko '83

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From: jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Switching COM: Ports
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Date: 8 May 89 12:54:33 GMT
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