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Article #9529Re: Naming the serial com port Com1,Com2,...Com4, \\.\Com5, \\.\Com6,..
From: Leo Havm�ller
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:24
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:24
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<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 ? COM1-COM9 can be opened without \\.\ COM10 and above must be opened with \\.\ All can be opened with \\.\ Leo Havm�ller.
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,8b20be73baf79a0d X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII From: "Leo Havm�ller" <leh@-nospam-rtx.dk> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <40ebd523@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Naming the serial com port Com1,Com2,...Com4, \\.\Com5, \\.\Com6,.. Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:24:57 +0200 Lines: 14 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.63.27.146 Message-ID: <40ec07b8$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1089210296 80.63.27.146 (7 Jul 2004 07:24:56 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail