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Article #9526Re: Naming the serial com port Com1,Com2,...Com4, \\.\Com5, \\.\Com6,..
From: Andrue Cope [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:58
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:58
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<Cahgerti Ghaviery> wrote: > Can some one comment about this issue ? "\\.\" is the standard prefix that Win32 uses to denote a device. I would guess that Windows retains the first four for backward compatibility with DOS but the rest have to be accessed like any other device. -- Andrue Cope [TeamB] [Bicester, Uk] http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/guide.html
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