On Jan 17 10:48, Stan Pinte wrote: > Hello, > > accessing serial port under cygwin, with ids above 10 is broken: > > Using "/dev/com20" results in a "No such file or directory" error.
Try the more POSIXy "/dev/ttyS19" instead. /dev/ttyS0 == /dev/com1 This is supposed to be supported up to /dev/ttyS63. > The following post: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-12/msg00323.html says I should use > > "\\\\.\\com20" instead of "/dev/com20". If I do that, the call to open(...) > succeed, > but the call to tcgetattr raises a "Inappropriate ioctl for device" error. This posting is 7(!) years old. Things have changed in the meantime. Don't use the Windows notation "\\.\comXX". It's not supported. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/