Dick K8ZTT wrote: I read in the US Interface Navigator Installation Manual was to avoid using COM 3; the manual says; for some reason (known only to the computer gods and maybe Bill Gates) COM 3 can be grabbed by other programs"
---------------------------------- Historically (going back to the first PCs - long before the Internet and 99% of the gadgets we hang on our computers today) Com 1 and 2 were for external devices (usually a mouse on 1 and external modem or whatever on 2), Coms 3 and 4 were reserved for internal devices. As internal modems started appearing, they typically used Com 3. Some programs that use a modem default to Com 3, and start "talking" with whatever device is there assuming it is a modem. Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
