>I have a pretty strange problem where the com ports appear to 
>be in the wrong state after reboot.  I notice this because the mouse
>probe done from MS-DOS fails and then probes my modem...
>A hard reboot fixes it.

I haven't seen this.  Maybe you have funky hardware?

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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