"Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > > 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 ^^^^^^^any cygwin on NT
> "touch COM12" followed by "rm COM12" just works.