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I'm having a problem getting a NCSA Telnet (v2.3.03) using a 3com 3c503
packet driver (v9.4.0), Windows 3.0, and MS Word (DOS) working on the
same 486 running DOS 5.

It seems to stem from a problem with the packet driver and using an
interrupt number of either 3 or 5, conflicting with DOS5's emm386.exe
driver.  Telnet works, and I believe Word works, but Windows crashes.

When I change the interrupt number to 2 or 4 (or almost anything other
than 3 or 5), Windows (and Word) works, but Telnet gives a 'wrong ioaddr'
message and exits.

Then, when I replace emm386.exe with Window's emm386.sys, telnet works,
but Windows and/or Word sometimes crashes.

Can anyone tell me what's going on here?  Is it because the packet driver's
interrupts are incompatible with that of Windows (and perhaps Word), or
is it being allocated inappropriately in memory, or should I be using
something else other than emm386.*, or is something else going on here?

I'm not a PC-techie, so please excuse my ignorance and probable
misusage of PC terms.

Any help at all would be appreciated, preferably through email since I
don't read this newsgroup often.

thanks in advance,
gn
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georgen@resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca	(NeXTMail ok)
molecular genetics, hospital for sick children