Com3 And Com4 Not Supported For A Mouse Yet

DocumentID: 650782
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:01 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer has the Logitech Serial mouse with a driver called MOUSE.COM which only has the options for Com1 and Com2. She has a device driver by Shearware, DEVCOM.SYS, in her CONFIG.SYS file that enables Com3 and Com4 to be used. The problem is that she can't get the mouse to work from Com4. She can't use Com1 and Com2 because she has a mainframe cable coming out of Com1 and a Giltronics Box for printers coming out of Com2. Both of these require either Com1 or Com2. Her Com3 is a 24 pin and her mouse doesn't use that. Is there any way she will be able to get Com4 to work? Solutions: Although WP does show COM3 and COM4 in the menu, these have been included for future enhancements of the product. According to the programmer, "At this time we do not support coms 3 or 4...We decided to make these ports available for the future, but we don't do anything with them right now."

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