explanation : long
Well, you must realize that calmap is dos based, and is fussy. You must start the laptop and enter the bios and see if the serial port is disabled. This can be done by most laptops by pressing the f1 key or some other function key upon boot. Secondly you have to check if the com 1 is not being used by another device, sometimes by a built in infrared device. If you have windows 2000 or xp on the laptop, your basically done in, unless you have a dual boot with windows 98 installed. You should be booting to dos instantly anyway by inserting the following lines in the autoexec window, so windows doesn;t have the chance to mess your comports up.
From windows go to start, then run then type in:
sysedit
In the autoexec window type in the following :
cd\calmap
calmap.exe
Then close the all the open windows, and say "yes" to save changes"
Reboot the computer.
calmap will run and to exit press q and calmap will exit and windows will begin to boot.
To avoid this and see your data you can add the line :
edit
under the calmap.exe you did as in the earlier steps
This will allow you to view you saved data via the built in ms-dos editor built in DOS.
Once the editor opens you select file by pressing the "alt" key.
The press "f" then then "o" to open a file
Then Keep pressing tab until you get to the directory column and use the arrow keys to find the "data" directory in calmap. Then find your saved logs.
SOrry for going off topic, but i figured you were going to encounter this anyway one day.
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