COMMDRV.IBM and Windows XP (AREV Specific)
At 03 MAR 2003 10:08:59AM Gary L. McKee wrote:
Setting the DEVICE=COMMDRV.IBM 1024,1 in the CONFIG.SYS does not appear to work with Windows XP. Does anybody have a solution for communications in AREV running Windows XP?
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At 04 MAR 2003 02:59PM Gary L. McKee wrote:
I tried downloading a DRVLOAD from the internet. Seems it is hard to find. A lot of the links don't go anywhere or to unrelated web pages. Does anybody have a DRVLOAD that they are using that will work will Windows XP that they could email to me?
At 04 MAR 2003 04:11PM Bill Titus wrote:
Check this download list:
http://ftp.cis.nctu.edu.tw/data/pub2/Vendors_old/Diamond/communications/supra/windows/
At 05 MAR 2003 08:16AM Bill Titus wrote:
Gary,
If the link doesn't work, email me [email protected] and I'll send it to you.
At 05 MAR 2003 04:50PM S Smith wrote:
Put drvload in a search at http://www.google.com and drvload.zip appears on the second page of search results….
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/~jwvm/ece274/bestdosutil/disk2/
Steve
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At 06 MAR 2003 09:41AM Gary L. McKee wrote:
Thanks, I got the download. Here's the results:
I tried the DRVLOAD, and AREV 2.1 running under Windows XP is still giving me an error.
Here is my autoexec.bat file:
subst r: c:\den_se~1\database
c:\drvloadxp\drvload g:\svirl\commdrv.ibm 1024,1
c:\drvloadxp\drvload g:\svirl\comm2drv.ibm 1024,2
When manually executing the bat file, the screen displays that the driver was sucessfully installed.
Then I go into AREV and execute the V124 statement (which worked in Windows 95 and 98 even without the DRVLOAD)
V124('OP', HANDLE1, COM1DRV, '',FLAG)
The FLAG comes back with a value of 2, which is an Error that means (as I understand it) the comm driver was not installed.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Thank you!
Gary L. McKee
At 06 MAR 2003 03:29PM Matt Sorrell wrote:
From within your ARev session, try doing a SUSPEND. Then, execute the MEM /C command to see what is loaded in memory and make sure that COMMDRV.IBM is loaded.
It's possible you might need to launch ARev from a batch file and have COMMDRV.IBM loaded right before you launch ARev so that it is available from that command session.
At 06 MAR 2003 03:43PM S Smith wrote:
Don't use subst. You're overcomplicating the problem. Matt's advice is good.
Steve
At 06 MAR 2003 10:26PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
The DevLoad mentioned in the referenced note can be found at http://www.infradead.org/devload/.
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At 07 MAR 2003 10:36AM Gary L. McKee wrote:
Launching it from a batch file seems to have done the trick. Thank you everyone very much for your time and suggestions!
Gary
At 07 MAR 2003 04:08PM Matt Sorrell wrote:
I got one right, I got one right!!!!
*happy dance*
This momentary lapse into insanity brought to you by the whooshing sound that deadlines make as they go flying by.
Seriously though, it's a bit of a pick-me-up when I consider the huge wealth of expertise on this board.