Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Pete" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.mydemos Subject: Re: Cyclone Date: 16 Nov 1998 12:51:24 GMT Organization: http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~imilco/ Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01be115f$5b4582c0$b7faabc3@hanno> References: <01be10ad$bd6d5c00$5f3163c3@hanno> <72orus$p0d1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36500FDC.FAF15C08@hinge.mistral.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host5-171-250-183.btinternet.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to like my setup....(I get my come-up-ance here > as loads of people have said the same > about some of my programs). > > I get the message: > > openning serial ports....ports cannot be opened. > shut down all other applications and re-run Cyclone. > > Funny, as nothings using the serial ports at that point (and they work > from everything else)..... > > Craig. If the serial port's GPO2 interrupt cannot be enabled, Cyclone assumes the port is being used by another program. If there's a better way of checking this I'd like to hear it as my knowledge of such things is pretty limited. I've tried Cyclone in Win95 and MSDOS without problems, and only get the above message when another program in Win95 is making use of the ports. Pete.