> Setting COM2FIFO=1 is telling Windows that you have a 16550A (or
> better) UART chip on that port. You certainly *should* -- but if you
> don't, telling Windows that you do can change slow/unreliable
> communication to broken/unusable.
> [Various utilities, including (I believe) MSD, will report for each
> COM port whether the UART is 16550-compatible or just
> 8250-compatible.]
> I think I remember that there was a time when one had to install a
> newer serial driver to Windows 3.x to support 16550 FIFO operation,
> so this change *may* be safely ignored if you don't have such a
> driver. Win95 detects such a UART automatically, and allows it to be
> configured from the Device Manager; do not attempt to load a Win 3.x
> serial driver under Win 95.
1. I am running Win95, and Nuts & Bolts Discover Pro tells me that
my UART is 16650C. From what you said above, I gather that I should
add COM2FIFO=1.
2. How about changing COM2BUFFER=1024 to COM2BUFFER=32768?
Thank you.
David Jonathan Justman
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