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

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From: Leo Havm�ller
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 04:32
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> I have experienced that COM1-9 can NOT be opened with \\.\,

I disagree. All COM ports can be opened with \\.\COMnnn on both NT and 9x.

Leo Havm�ller.
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