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

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From: Cahgerti Ghaviery
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:39

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Is that okay to to use \\.\COM1, \\.\COM2, \\.\COM2, \\.\COM4 ?

> "\\.\" 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.

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