Trouble with CROSSWORKS on my new emachine

[WKRP <wkrp@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