Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:55:05PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >>I believe that whenever I try to limit COM to single digits someone > >>complains about their special board with 527 com ports or something. > > > >That's another issue. COM12 is not a DOS device (on NT), but it can be > >the basename of an NT device. > > How do you know that it isn't a DOS device on NT?
With 1.5.10 "touch COM12" followed by "rm COM12" just works. Also <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/naming_a_file.asp> Pierre
