mother board serial ports and ISA serial ports usually run fine with TRLog
under WIN98 in a "DOS WINDOW".
Add on PCI serial ports such as Byterunner and SiiG usually must run under
" native" or rebooted DOS with a DOS driver preloaded (thanks N0AX).
By the way the DOS driver as supplied with Siig cards doesn't work, an
updated driver must be downloaded form their WEB site.
USB serial ports with RS232 adapters remain a mystery
Dave
NR1DX
PS: Jim 98% of the time I run under WIN98 unless I need COM5 and 6 which I
have a PCI card for, then I have to run under DOS. Drop me a direct Email
if you are having problems under WIN98.
At 09:44 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Gary J. Ferdinand W2CS wrote:
>| 2.
>| My computer runs Win98. I don't want to restart it in DOS mode, I want
>| to run TR from Win98. What do I have to do tell TR which directory to
>| look in for what it needs? I don't care how I start TR, whether from a
>| win98 shortcut, from the RUN dialogue box, or by doubleclicking tr.exe
>| in the explorer file list, or even by running a .bat file using one of
>| those methods. I'd even use Visual Basic if I had to.
>|
>
>Jim,
>
>I use TRLog under win98 just as you desire to do. It seems like there's a
>group of guys out there who swear by doing it and another group who swears
>at doing it. So far, I've not been burned. Issues, if any, seem to have to
>do with fights between windows and TR over who owns the serial port being
>used. Again, TR has run without incident here under windows98 through many
>a contest and many a release of TR. Same is true for Windows95 for that
>matter
>
>Try it and test it.
>
>Create a shortcut icon to TR.EXE. If you haven't done this before, one way
>to do it is to use the windows file explorer (right-click START, select
>explore) and navigate to the subdirectory containing TR.EXE. Right click on
>TR.EXE and select shortcut. Drag the shortcut to where ever you want it,
>such as the desktop. ("right" here assumes your mouse is set up for a
>right-handed person.)
>
>Now, open up the shortcut object itself by right clicking on it and
>selecting properties. The window you will see will have several tabs. One
>of them will show a command line, probably containing TR.EXE. Also in this
>window will be a specification of the working directory. Set it up to point
>to the TR subdirectory. That's all there is to it. Close the shortcut
>object. To launch TR just click on the TR shortcut (double or single click
>depending no whether you've set up Win98 as a classic or active desktop).
>This all assumes you have all TR-related files in one subdirectory.
>
>If you don't like the window it runs in (too small or fonts not right, etc),
>you can go back to the icon and edit those parameters. Or, you can edit the
>icon to use a full-screen mode, instead. Up to you. I've done both. I've
>noted no difference, performance-wise.
>
>If you wish to put parameters on the TR.EXE command line, just add them into
>the shortcut icon.
>
>GL!
>
>73,
>
>Gary W2CS
>
>
>
>
>
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