[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Need a mouse driver for COM3 or Kermit for COM3

stankus@portia.Stanford.EDU (John Stankus) (03/08/90)

    I need a mouse driver for a Logitech serial mouse that will let it run
off COM3:  Logitech customer diservice says that I can't do that, since
com1: and com3: share the same interupt, but on my machine I can select
IRQ10,11,12, or 15 for com3:.  Does anyone know of a mouse driver that
will let me use COM3:

    If that cannot be done is there a version of KERMIT for the PC that will
let me use COM3:

Thanks in Advance



John J. Stankus, N5PEE                         Department of Chemistry
stankus@portia.stanford.edu                    Stanford University                     

wilber@sal-sun63.usc.edu (John Wilber) (03/09/90)

In article <9873@portia.Stanford.EDU> stankus@portia.Stanford.EDU (John
Stankus) writes:

>    If that cannot be done is there a version of KERMIT for the PC that will
>let me use COM3:

>John J. Stankus, N5PEE                         Department of Chemistry
>stankus@portia.stanford.edu                    Stanford University

Since Kermit is in the public domain, you should be able to find source code
somewhere.  Try changing a line or two, and then recompiling, if this is what
you end up doing.  You might also want to try to disassemble the mouse driver
code, and change an address or port in there, but don't tell anybody about
this.  Or, as a final option, you could write your own mouse driver.

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