[comp.windows.ms] Wincomm problems...

mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) (10/14/90)

Hello.

I just downloaded wincomm2.zip from cica. It unzipped and installed fine, but
it doesn't run at all on my system.

a) Dials the modem, then immediately pops up a message saying no carrier
   detected.
b) Anytime I the program, it takes windows down with it; a box pops up
   saying can't access aux.

Here's my system config:

Mylex 20MHz MB, 64K cache, Phoenix BIOS, 8Meg, conner 3104 100M IDE drive.
Paradise 1024i card with 512K
Smartmodem 2400 (pretty generic), hayes compatible, configured on com4.

Win 3.0 running in debug configuration. This is a configuration with a 
different kernel.exe which people with SDK can setup for debugging windows
programs. This is a pickier version of windows, and will try to tell you of
possibly illegal code that the non-debug version sometimes accepts. I am
surprized how many win apps are released that don't work under the debug
config. How did the authors debug the program?

Oh well.

Milan
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tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu (Timothy Smith) (10/15/90)

Hello all,

	I having downloaded wincomm2.zip from cica and installing it on
my system has run into many problems.  First of all I cannot get it
to dial out on my modem.  I have everything set up, using the custom settings
as I have to use a pulse dial phone.  I can tell the modem connects with
the other system, but wincomm never seems to know that.  If I go back
and tell wincomm to direct connect, it then works.  But that shouldn't
be required.  Also I have gotten various "Application Fatal Error" 
and windows kills the process.  I really want to like this program.
But so far, it doesn't work for me.  It's also very slow.. 
I have a 80386sx running at 16mhz with 4 megs of memory and smartdrv 
enabled with a 2meg cache.  



			tim smith

tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu

butch@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (H. G. Walker) (10/15/90)

In article <736@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu (Timothy Smith) writes:
|> 	I having downloaded wincomm2.zip from cica and installing it on
|> my system has run into many problems.  First of all I cannot get it
|> to dial out on my modem.  I have everything set up, using the custom settings
|> as I have to use a pulse dial phone.  I can tell the modem connects with
|> the other system, but wincomm never seems to know that.  If I go back
|> and tell wincomm to direct connect, it then works.  But that shouldn't
|> be required.  Also I have gotten various "Application Fatal Error" 
|> and windows kills the process.  I really want to like this program.

Make sure that your return code settings are correct.  This is what Wincomm
keys on for connecting.  Email me details of what caused the Unrecoverable
App Error because they really need to fix that.

Butch