Windows Me and the serial port
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Hi, I think I asked this question before in "the lounge" a while ago but this forum is probably a better place for it. Because we cannot tell which machine our customers our going to run our software on I got myself an "Me" machine. It all works fine except for when I start up the machine or release the communication port after having used it the serial ports on it go into a very strange state. In all other windows versions I have used (3.1,95,98,Nt 3.51, Nt4.0, Nt2000) releasing or not using a serial port just brings the RS232 port in rest condition (RTS,DTR and TX line go negative: between -3 and -12V) which is what is supposed to happen. An unused is "not used" and therefore inactive. The RS232 standard says the port signals should be at rest in that case. That is not what my "Me" machine does. it sets RTS and DTR (positive voltage) and puts the TX line in "break" mode continuously. I now have the problem that I do not know whether the problem is a one off case or whether it is typical for "Me". Anyone got any ideas or has heard about that sort of thing ? At microsoft nobody has a clue and when it comes to giving specs about what their product is supposed to do it is equally hopeless (believe me, I have tried extensively) Any ideas/help greatly appreciated. Filip