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- *** PCLVBW 1.1 Release Notes ***
-
- (1) Always choose LEVEL_8 rather than LEVEL_14 in calling SioFIFO. Windows
- is slow, and LEVEL_14 only allows 2 additional characters before an overun.
-
- (2) Be sure to copy PCLVBW.DLL to the directory in which you have installed
- Visual Basic so it can be used by the interpreter. Also copy MIO.DLL.
-
- (3) The module SIOERROR.BAS will print the text associated with an error code
- returned from any of the PCLVBW functions.
-
- (4) If you will be using the standard PC ports COM1 to COM4, they should be
- disabled from Windows's control becuase Windows "virtualizes" all ports it
- controls. For example, to disable Windows control of COM1 and COM3 (which
- share IRQ3), add
-
- COM1Base=0
- COM1Irq=-1
- COM3Base=0
- COM3Irq=-1
-
- to the [386Enh] section of SYSTEM.INI in the Windows directory.
-
- (5) We will be releasing a version of our VB communications library that
- uses the standard Windows API, rather than talking to the port hardware
- directly as is done in PCLVBW. It will be named the "Windows Standard
- Communications" (WSC) library, and will not require that the SYSTEM.INI
- file be modified. Look for WSC4VB10.ZIP to be released July 15th, 1996.
-