Virtural Com Port?

I am using a old DOS program to connect to a old POS machine. Very stable program and POS, that uses RS232. On W2K I can't get this to work. Does anyone know how I could configure the com port to work?

The Software program "sees" the POS, my guess is that it is a virtural port rather than a hard port....is this true?

 

First thing I'd do is take a look at config.sys and autoexec.bat on a machine that will connect with your POS system. Maybe even print the files.

On 2K, you want to add most of the entries to your config.nt and autoexec.nt files since those provide resources to older 16bit apps running on 2K.

If you want to post copies of the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, we can tell you which lines to add to config.nt and autoexec.nt.

If things don't work after that (but I'm betting they will) we can try a few other things.