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On 16 May 1995, Darrel B Riekhof wrote:

> In article <800634...@markbz.demon.co.uk>,
> >If you use OS2 as it comes you will get errors unless you use a third party 
> >serial driver driver installed (i.e. SIO).  Unless your modem is 2400 ;)
> Ummm, what are you talking about?  Just last night I was compiling, and
> downloading in the background, with several other minor processes also
> in the background, and editing in the foreground, and I didn't nor have
> I ever got any errors in warp during the download.  I didn't have any
> third party serial driver.  I do this regularly.  I use it as it came.
> What are refering to?

Ditto -- the previous poster probably doesn't know what he's talking
about.  I use the standard drivers supplied with OS/2, and multitasking
while downloading doesn't even cause ZOC (i.e., my native OS/2 comm
program) to break stride.  The only thing I can guess is that the original
poster might be thinking of trying to run Windows or DOS comm programs
while multitasking -- programs that are used to hogging the system --
perhaps they perform like dogs (but, who really cares, when there's ZOC
:-).  I would be surprised if such poor performance was obtained using a
native OS/2 app. 

JOHN

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