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Serial Solutions What To Do First
Up And Running Within Ten Minutes._________________________________
This section is intended to get up up and running with
Serial Solutions within ten minutes. A more detailed explanation
of the component parts of the Serial Solution system follows in
later chapters. Since this paragraph is a quick installation, details
for COM3 onwards are not being set, so only COM1 and COM2
can be used for the moment.
Outline
1) Copy NewCOM.SYS from Disk 1 to the hard disk.
COPY A:NEWCOM.SYS C:\ <return>
2) Add an entry for the Serial Solution device driver to the
CONFIG.SYS file using an editor such as the MSDOS
editor EDIT.
DEVICE=C:\NEWCOM.SYS
3) Copy NewMODE.EXE from Disk 1 to the hard disk.
COPY A:NEWMODE.EXE C:\ <return>
4) Copy EASYC.EXE from the Easy Disk to the hard disk.
COPY A:EASYC.EXE C:\ <return>
5) Reboot the machine by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by
switching the power off then back on.
The Serial Solutions copyright message is displayed on
power up. The Serial Solution device driver is now ready
for use.
Using COM2.
Assuming that there is a serial port set up as a standard
COM2 port present in the PC, the following uses COM2 as a
terminal. Data entered at the keyboard with be sent to an
attached serial device and any data received will be printed on
the PC screen. The external serial device can be a modem or an
RS232 terminal connected with a suitable cable.
6) Set the baud rate, parity, stop bits etc to MATCH the
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