🚀 go-pugleaf

Many moons ago (well February I think) I reported a problem that all my windows
comms software (particularly Delrina Winfax Pro V4 and Smartcom for Windows)
caused  system hang/crash.

Jason Jordan reckoned that this was a Known Problem fixed by FixPak 5.

This is not the case!   I have not at long last obtained a UK version of this fix and
installed it - problem remains the same.

Next IBM support here in UK said try SIO drivers - duly obtained and installed.
Now I get a warning in Windows stly that the Comms Port (COM2) is already in
use - but nothing else is using it!   At least the system doesn't crash!

Another little feature of SIO is that Ctrl-Alt-Del after shutdown no longer works.

I have tried IBM support - but all they can do is escalate the problem - not fix it.
I have also tried all sorts of settings variations as per the SIO information - but
the problem persists.  Please note: I don't have an SDLC interface conflicting with
COM2 (at least, not that I know of).

These programs work fine in Windows under native DOS, but not in Windows under
OS/2.  I am running "red box" OS/2 v3, Windows for Work Groups 3.11 and MS-DOS
6.22.

Does anyone have any solution to this problem?   Or do I just replace OS/2 with
Windows95?

Regards, and thanks in advance,

Richard.