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On Oct 22 21:50, Todd Rearick wrote: > Brian Dessent <brian <at> dessent.net> writes: > > > What I was trying to emphasize is that passing "COM4" to open() in a > > Cygwin program sets you up for a world of hurt... > > > > Brian > > It's even worse than you think. In this case...COM4 is not even a real serial > port...but a "virtual" serial port constructed by a USB driver. Fortunately for > me...because it's not a real port...I don't actually need to configure it at > all.... > > I'm actually quite impressed that I can even open COM ports and write to them > and it all seems to work OK via cygwin. Thanks for the warning and the help. You should nevertheless use /dev/com4 or /dev/ttyS3. I might be wrong but it still looks like you don't quite see what Brian was up to. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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