Hello,
I had an older DOS machine finally bite the dust and I attempted to
move my older DOS driven software to a newer XP laptop.
Of course, the newer laptop didn't have a COM port, so I installed
a USB -> COM adaptor. (from Radio Shack) That works well and
assigns COM-4 (apparent in the device manager) to the device.
However, the DOS program 'ERRORS' with a "can't find COM port #2".
At this point I believe there is no real 'DOS' in XP, so my choices are:
1. Find a "work around to make the COM port work"
2. Reformat the hard drive and install DOS first with a FAT partition; then
XP with an NTFS partition.
3. Find an older machine with WIN 98 SE or earlier and use that.
4. Find a new windows program (cheap)
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the bandwidth.
de Phil - N8PS
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