TIB: Re: PC Serial Port Availability


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TIB: Re: PC Serial Port Availability




You should really be asking this on TI-Hardware.. but anyway..

Some computers have a PS/2 style mouse which doesn't use one of your serial
ports, and others have a serial mouse that does.  I assume you probably have the
latter..?  If so, there is nothing you can really do about it, except log off
the internet if you want to use your graph link.  You could put your modem &
graph link on the same IRQ and the mouse on the other IRQ and that could work.

Bryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "G.E.Cook" <74401.324@compuserve.com>
To: <ti-basic@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 6:14 PM
Subject: TIB: PC Serial Port Availability



I have an old 486 computer running Windows 3.1. In order to transfer
programs to my TI-86 (or HP-48g), I find I have to reboot the computer
using a special boot-up disk removing all references to my mouse in the
autoexec.bat file. The mouse  uses serial port  #2. My internal modem uses
serial port #1. I can then use keyboard functions to move around Win 3.1and
WLINK86  to transfer files back and forth using serial port #2. This
procedure is a real pain!!
My questions are:
1)  How do other people get an available Serial Port (and an unused IRQ) on
a PC?
2)  Is the TI-89 file X-fer program is only available for Win 95 and up ?
Or can the TI-86 WLINK86.EXE be used?
Thanx .....gecook@compuserve.com





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