[GreenKeys] Hmpf... Heavy metal doen't work....

[Bill Buzbee]

Philipp Hachtmann writes:
...snip
> > Could you give a bit more detail about your failure mode?  Can
> > you send OK, but just not receive?  Perhaps I did not initialize
> > the ports correctly and the windows driver is expecting some odd
> > handshaking.
> On Win98 I can write out well.
> On W2K it doesn't RUN at all (exception..... before Window showed)
> I've NEVER read in successfully :-(
> (On several systems and Win98/2k)

Heavy Metal will not work on WinNT/Win2K (and presumably not on WinXP,
though I haven't tried).  The issue here is that these operating systems
are trying to be serious and correctly disallow a promiscuous application
like Heavy Metal from directly configuring a shared device such a serial
port.  The solution here is to write a device driver which will handle 
the setting of the odd baud rate, and perhaps I'll get around to that
some day (although "She Who Must Be Obeyed" has a number of household
projects for me to do that are a bit higher priority).
...Bill