On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:26:45PM -0400, 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 >"touch COM12" followed by "rm COM12" just works.
But I suspect that you don't have a board on your system which supports 12 com ports. cgf
