I'm a little curious to know how vmware workstation lists the serial ports on linux. It's the unique software that does this right that I know.
Regards, Fabio 2011/7/27 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > P.vanderWal wrote: >> >> Debian and Ubuntu >> >> grtjs Piet >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" >> <felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> >> To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:39 AM >> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] How to detect serial/usb-serial ports. >> >> >>> For which operating system? > > I'd expect (recent versions of) those to only create devices that were known > to exist. I detect what's available by looking for up to 12 /dev/ttyS*, 8 > /dev/ttyUSB* and 4 /dev/ttyI*, then later checking that they can actually be > opened (bearing in mind that this might glitch a control line). > > It's worth noting that a few weeks ago I was updating the standard serial.pp > unit and noticed that Solaris designated serial ports as /dev/ttya and > /dev/ttyb. > > Windows of course is \COM1, or strictly \\.\COM1 etc.; I note Fabio's test > but in the past have used the registry to find e.g. named ports simulated by > an AVR box. > > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
