Re: Trouble with CROSSWORKS on my new emachine

["ron clarke" <user@clarke-ron.karoo.co.uk>]

You are not going to like this

crossworks will not run under 95 or 98 even clicking on the msdos promt. it
should have working If you booted from an msdos floopy provded com1 was free
you cannot use com2 for crossworks. The reason you could not see the hard
disk with the floopy was probabbly because the dos volume was to big for the
version of dos you have booted

ron clarke swanland uk


WKRP wrote in message <39D553CC.249D829A@tiac.net>...
>I've used CROSSWORKS for years to transfer stuff from old Apple disks to
>PCs. Recently I switched to a new emachine 533id2 tower running Win98.
>When I tried to run CROSSWORKS on it the program seemed OK, but it
>couldn't find the COM port. It reported "No serial port hardware found".
>I was running MSDOS under Win98 and when in Win98 the serial driver was
>reported installed and set to 19200 baud. Seems almost like the serial
>driver gets turned off when I go to an MSDOS program. I tried booting
>from an MSDOS disk. The boot went OK, but still the same problem. (In
>addition, MSDOS couldn't find the hard drive???...Oh well...)
>
>Whadda I do guys?
>
>email copies of replies appreciated, my ISP's newew server is flakey
>some days.
>
>Thanks,
>
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>
>Jeff Wisnia    W1BSV     MIT '57 ee
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