[Discussion] PMFax and PCI modems

Chuck McKinnis mckinnis at sandia.net
Sun Feb 3 06:35:06 PST 2008


Carl Gehr wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:06:54 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> 
>>> I probably should have asked before, even though my COM.SYS statements
>>> are REM'd.  But, What does the '/F' actually mean?  I did a:
>>>     HELP COM.SYS
>>> and it does not indicate any switches or options other than the ones
>>> that indicate the port,address for the device.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Carl
>> From the COM.SYS driver that supports PCI ports readme:
>>
>> The COM DD with PCI support accepts the same CONFIG.SYS parameters as
>> legacy COM DD (see OS/2 Command Reference) and three additional parameters:
>> /V	Verbose mode
>>         to display driver information about all accepted for service 
>> COM ports.
>> /W	Wait verbose mode.
>>         Displaying pauses with a "Press Enter to continue..." message.
>> /F      Find COM ports on PCI combo (serial/parallel) cards automatically.
> 
> Thanks, Chuck...
> I'll file this for future reference.
> 
> I've looked all over the system for the file you refer to.  There's
> obviously something key that I'm missing regarding it's name/location.
> 
> Carl

PCIDEV.TBL should be in \OS2\BOOT if you have installed the COM.SYS 
driver with PCI support.


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