Re: High Numbered Com Ports

Bob,

> The recent comments about using "\\.\" reminds me that I had trouble
> opening com ports with numbers higher than 1 or 2 (e.g., com12) that
> were mapped with a multi-port serial driver.
>
> Rick found that these had to be preceded by "\\.\" before they would
> open without error (e.g., \\.\COM12). Com1 and com2 seem to open ok
> without this prefix.

'com1' and 'com2' (as well as comx up to 9) are special files always
available in the current dir. Try these commands at a console prompt:

dir com1
dir com5
dir com12
dir nul
dir aux
dir prn

Regards,
Federico de Ceballos

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Received on Tue Feb 15 2005 - 10:35:26 PST