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- COMRESET version 1.0 of 12/3/90
-
- This simple program is used to initialize serial ports on an IBM
- PC-compatible computer. It was designed specifically because Microsoft
- Windows 3.0 running in 386 Enhanced mode does not fully reset the COM
- ports if you use serial communications applications under Windows. Run
- COMRESET to reinitialize the ports installed in your machine after you
- exit Windows, if you are having trouble with communications applications
- that normally work correctly but fail after you run Windows on your
- system.
-
- List the numbers of the COM ports you want to reset on the COMRESET
- command line. (Generally, you should reset all the ports that are
- installed in your system.) Include only the number, and separate each
- with a space. COMRESET recognizes only ports COM1 through COM4 and will
- exit with an error message (and without doing anything) if you specify a
- port that is out of range. If a COM port is specified but does not
- actually exist in your system, COMRESET will note it with an error
- message, but other existing ports you may have specified will still be
- reset.
-
- Example: To reset ports 1, 2 and 4, enter the command:
-
- COMRESET 1 2 4
-
- at the MS-DOS prompt.
-
- COMRESET assumes that the serial ports are at the "standard" addresses
- and interrupts for COM1 through COM4:
-
- Device Port IRQ
- -------------------------
- COM1 03f8h 4
- COM2 02f8h 3
- COM3 03e8h 4
- COM4 02e8h 3
-
- Custom versions of the program to address other ports can be produced
- on request.
-
- This program is a product of:
-
- FBN Productions
- 917 W. Columbia Ave.
- Champaign, IL 61821
-
- This is a free program, and you may distribute it as you desire. For
- further information or source code, contact FBN Productions at the
- address above or through the FBN BBS at (217) 359-2874.