Re: Naming the serial com port Com1,Com2,...Com4, \\.\Com5, \\.\Com6,..

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From: biondello
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 00:11

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take a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;115831

also note that serial ports can be named different from COM + some number. I
have seen programs that let you only enter a number and the program builds
the name by appending this number to "COM".


<Cahgerti Ghaviery> wrote in message news:40ebd523@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I was working on a simple rs232 communication program and learned an
> expensive lesson (spending long time to realize) that COM ports after COM4
> should be defined as \\.\COM5, \\.\COM6 ... instead of COM5 COM6.
>
> Can some one comment about this issue ?
>
>

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