Re: How to access COM12

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From: Helmut Giese
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:59

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:39:38 -0800, "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)"
<no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:

Hi Gambit,
>> I have a many-year-old application which handles several modems
>> at the same time. Now the system got once more expanded, I
>> have to deal with COM ports up to '12' - and I cannot open them
>
>That is because you are not opening them correctly.  
Yes, I supposed this to be the case :)

>If you read the
>documentation for CreateFile() at MSDN, you will see the following:
>
>    "To specify a COM port number greater than 9, use the following
>syntax: "\\\\.\\COM10". This syntax works for all port numbers and
>hardware that allows COM port numbers to be specified."
Thanks a lot, you saved me a lot of head scratching - as so often.
Have a nice weekend and best regards
Helmut Giese

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