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Re: Serial Port Problems

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From: Terry Freas
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 15:57
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In article <8331@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer) writes:
>I vaguely remeber someone sending a post concerning an "easily available"
>patch to allow OS/2 to recognize more than 2 serial ports on a non-PS/2
>machine, but (s)he did not give a source for this patch.  Did I miss it
>or something?

Someone on Fidonet has succesfully patched the COM driver to support n
ports.  I wanted to post the specifics to Kai Rommel's original posting,
but my Fidonet BBS went down right after that.  So, if anyone has a Fido
connection, that's where to look.

-- 
Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / cfreas@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu
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Subject: Re: Serial Port Problems
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