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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Oliver Vecernik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook.  This port is
> connected via an usb-adapter and referred as COM4: on Windows.  I
> couldn't find any /dev/ttySx and I'm not sure if this is even supported.
>  Is this possible under Cygwin?

Definitely.  If Windows sees your serial port as COM4:, "/dev/ttyS3"
should definitely work.  If you're concerned that ttyS3 didn't show up
when you did "ls /dev", try "ls -l /dev/ttyS3" -- you should see the
device information.
	Igor
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