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====== Connection Diagnostics ====== | ====== Connection Diagnostics ====== | ||
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First, verify that you have the correct COM port selected in the ''Edit->Options'' menu as described below in the "Which COM port" section. The "port currently owned" message means that some other application has that COM port opened. Often this is a //Palm HotSync// manager or something like that running in the background. Most of those applications have a way to disconnect themselves from or disable their use of the COM port. | First, verify that you have the correct COM port selected in the ''Edit->Options'' menu as described below in the "Which COM port" section. The "port currently owned" message means that some other application has that COM port opened. Often this is a //Palm HotSync// manager or something like that running in the background. Most of those applications have a way to disconnect themselves from or disable their use of the COM port. |