Personal COMi Installation and Configuration

  NOTE on interrupt sharing:
    COMi supports shared interrupts on ISA serial adapter boards from several
    manufactures.  Look in the on-line COMi User Guide under the heading 
    "System and Adapter Support" for a list of tested adapters, and under
    "Installing ISA Serial Adapters | Shared Interrupt Adapter Types" for a
    description of the required features to support shared interrupts on an ISA
    machine.  By default, a book object will be created for the COMi Users Guide
    during the installation process.

    There are no interrupt restrictions on MCA machines, though we do not
    recommend installing more that eight devices on a single interrupt, or
    sharing interrupts across COMi loads.

To install the Personal COMi asynchronous serial device driver do one of the
following:

Method One:

1. Open the OS/2 System folder

2. Open the Drives folder

3. Double click on the drive that contains the distribution diskette.

4. Double click on the INSTALL.EXE icon.

5. Once INSTALL is loaded, use the "Install..." menu item to setup the
   installation for your system requirements and transfer the required
   files to your system.

    Select "Installation | Install..."

6. Use the "Configuration | COMi..." menu item to configure the COMi 
   device driver.  The configuration process has plenty of on-line help
   to help with setting up COMi.

7. Shutdown and re-boot your system.

Method Two:

1. Open an OS/2 command prompt session.

2. Make the disk drive containing the distribution diskette the default drive.

    Example:  [C:\]A: [ENTER)
              (assuming the distribution diskette is in drive A:)

3. Start INSTALL.EXE by typing INSTALL [ENTER]

4. Follow the instructions from item five, above.

Once installed, you may use INSTALL at any time to change the configuration
of the Personal COMi device driver and any device controlled by COMi.  Any
changes you make will require a re-boot to take effect.  Print spooler,
COMscope, SafePage, and QuickPage support is not included with the Personal
version of COMi

Your distribution diskette contains the file IOCTL.C.  IOCTL.C
contains "C" source code sample functions for most of the DosDevIOCtl
functions defined for Category One Asynchronous Serial Devices as defined in
the "Physical Device Driver Technical Reference".

Personal COMi, COMi, and INSTALL are the property of OS/tools Incorporated and 
are copyrighted (c) 1989-95 by OS/tools Incorporated with all rights reserved.

The Personal version of COMi provides complete support for up to four
additional serial devices.  You may use this device driver for your personal
use, only.  You may not distribute this device driver commercially or as part
of any commercial product.  An optional registration fee of $10.00 will
entitle you to support and free updates of Personal COMi.  Upon registration
you will be provided, upon request, with access to our BBS.  You will then
be able to download the complete source code for a PM communications test and
debug application. You will also be given access to the registered version of
Personal COMi.  The registered version supports 16650 and 16654 UARTS.

The Generally Available (GA) version of COMi supports up to 99 serial devices
in a single machine.  It also supports COMscope, COMspool, SafePage, PageStar,
and QuickPage.  COMi GA also has support for 16654 and 16750 UARTs and baud 
rates to 460.8K BPS.

We know nothing and are responsible for nothing, except for any increased
productivity and/or pleasure brought about by the use of these programs.  This
is the only disclaimer you have to read.

For additional information about COMscope, COMspool, the COMi device
driver, or other OS/tools products please contact:

OS/tools Incorporated
P.O.Box 246
Gilroy, CA  95021
Phone: (500)446-7257, FAX: (408)847-7480, BBS: (408)847-7484
Internet: products@os-tools.com or URL: http://www.os-tools.com

OS/tools, COMscope, COMspool, COMi, SafePage, and QuickPage are trademarks of
OS/tools Incorporated.

OS/2 is a trademark of International Business Machines, Incorporated.

