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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:15:00PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 16:41:
>
>> Thanks a lot Dave!
>> 
>> Seems that it is looking for a \Device\Serial5
>
>  Ouch.  That's a problem.  Not all serial devices use the same name format.

So what format do they use?

>  Although it's not strictly supported, you might be able to work around it
>by using "\\\\.\\com6" instead.

That is not likely to work with Cygwin.  It won't recognize it as a serial device.

cgf

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