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Re: Serial Communications

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From: Rick Ekle (CompSci)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:56
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In article <1992Jul17.145012.19692@u.washington.edu> rexw@hardy.u.washington.edu writes:
>
>Help!  
>I'm trying to use the communication routines from DDJ but I only
>get input from COM1 when I try and open COM2.  I can tell because I get
>input only when I move the mouse and not the expected input that is on
>COM2.  I also tried the straight windows calls but no luck.  If anyone can
>give some advice I'd appreciate it.
>
Hmm, if yuou only get input when you move the mouse, that seems to tell me
that you are trying to read modem input from off the mouse...

What COM port is your mouse plugged into and which COM port for your modem?

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