>Lance,
>I think this is something MS could/should fix. I will try to send this >scenario to them.

Good luck, I tried to tell Micro$oft a long time ago that they had a bug in MS-DOS v3.3 and they just blew me off like I was some kind of idiot or crackpot. "Yes sir, I'm SURE there's a bug in MS-DOS. HAHAHAHAHA!"

But funny enough you can't set the baud rate higher than 9600 in the MODE command (even though it says you can in the manual but doesn't give an example of a syntax that works), but even funnier, you can in MS-DOS 5.0 and above.

Never again...