On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:02:57 +1000 Ben Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8 Dec 2000, at 22:55, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Hello Folks:
>> You all might easily suppose that by simply unloading a mouse driver you
>> would thereby free up your serial port to use it for attaching an
>> alternative device after disconnecting the mouse. So it would seem.
> One would expect that, yes.
>> This afternoon when I attempted to transfer files from my computer to
>> another by use of a null-modem cable connected between a free serial port
>> in the other computer and the serial port of where a mouse had been in
>> my computer, I was unable to establish a connection between the two
>> computers, no matter how I tried to configure my serial communications
>> software. I was certain that I had unloaded the mouse driver. Just to
>> make sure, I re-connected the mouse, re-booted my computer and unloaded
>> the mouse driver again.
> Did you try rebooting without reconnecting the mouse?
Yes. The same problem occurred. The only way I was able to correct the
problem was to remark out the line in AUTOEXEC.BAT that loads the mouse
driver. Simply unloading the driver after it had been once loaded did not
serve to free up the com port for attachment of an alterative device.
> What kind
> of mouse was it (ie Mouse-systems, microsoft, or other?) When
> the mouse driver probes for mice, a Microsoft compatible one will
> respond with "M" but a mousesystems one will not, so it has to be
> forced.
It was an MSC mouse and I used the CTMOUSE driver.
>> Then I
>> transferred about 84 megabytes flawlessly and without any problems.
> Wow, that would have taken well over two hours at the highest
> RS232 speed of 115200bps.
It took about five hours at 9600 baud.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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