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- From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: IBM: Please help me hang up my phone!
- Message-ID: <u56TXB5w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:27:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.142052.21283@krk.fi>
- Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
- Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
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- malinen@krk.fi (Mikko Malinen) writes:
-
- > Steve Frampton (frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca) wrote:
- > : public-domain program DTR.COM (toggle DTR status from command-line) and
- > : CKCD (check carrier detect from command-line) -- the DTR program will
- > : *not* set DTR low. CKCD reports that there is no carrier detect on
- > : that port (and yet I'm able to echo "hello" to my other computer!).
- >
- > Try Ray Gwinn's newest COM drivers. Those might solve the problem.
-
- Hah! Can you say "The system has stopped. Contact your service
- representative"?
-
- > IBM own braindead COM drivers are useless.
-
- I'll have to agree with you here.
-
- Anyways, to summarize again...I was able to *solve* the DTR problem by
- specifying "DTR" in my MODE.COM statement in CONFIG.SYS with no
- arguments (ie. instead of "DTR=ON" or "DTR=OFF" I just have "DTR").
- It works fine now.
-
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