Re: Detecting physical and virtual COM ports

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From: Davide Puccioni
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:34

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Lionel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It's easy to enumerate all COM ports installed
> But i'm looking for a way to differenciate Physical and Virtual
> 
> Can someone help me ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
I'm interested in a *valid* response too.
In particular for various platforms (9x, NT, 2K, XP).

Looking on the web, I've found any sort of methods (from brute force 
tries - for loop that collect fails on CreateFile() attempts on each 
port - to any sort of 'home made' registry queries) but no one exaustive :-(

TeamB please help us!

With regards,
Davide.

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