> IIRC there are a few utility type "drivers/interface/??" type
> programs that allow a program written for earlier software to
> access the com ports correctly  - YMMV.
>
> I can't remember the name of the one I used but it just loads
> at startup and then everything works again. It may have been
> part of a VB

There was a thing, DirectIO if I recall, that allowed Tait style PIC
programmers to work on XP.  However, Service Pack 2 made it almost, but
not quite, impossible to install.  If I recall it took like 6 r 8 reboots
to actually install the thing, and if you tried to skip any it was remove
and start all over.  Once installed, however, it worked fine, and it seems
to me that if you had it installed, installing SP2 didn't break it.

Some time ago, however, most of the downloads for that package seem to
have disappeared.

I think that is one of the reasons W2K stayed so popular for so long.

--McD


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