Kent,
I guess I didn't make myself clear. I need a com program to *use* the ports, not to verify that they work. I already know that they work, and that the card is working. I know this by some other diagnostics which the board came with. The new ports are mapped to com5 and above. I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. Thanx, Ed On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: > > > I've never played with more than 4 com ports, so this may not work at > all, but you can give it a go. Attach a modem to one of the ports (say, > COM5), then from a "Command Prompt Only" (or "Restart Computer in MS-DOS > Mode") prompt, enter a command like: > echo ATDT(phone_num_of_your_second_line) > COM5 > and see if the modem dials your second phone line. If so, then you know > the card is (at least partially) working. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >