Re: [GD-Windows] Opening COM ports over 9?

[Root, K. <kr...@fu...>]

> People still use COM ports?  Gosh, what a concept.

 Many high-end equipment is still controllable over COM only :(=20

-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...] On Behalf Of
Andras Balogh
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:07 AM
To: Game Development for MS Windows
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Opening COM ports over 9?

> People still use COM ports?  Gosh, what a concept.

It's actually a virtual COM port hiding a high-tech GPS unit connected
via =20
USB port...


> Strange as it may seem, this is the info I saw on this topic:
>
> "To open a COM port greater than or equal to COM10, you have to prefix
> the string "\\.\" to the COM port name.
> In C it would look like this:
> CreateFile( "\\\\.\\COM10",...)
> because you have to escape the "\" character. "

Funny I've just found the same info right after I hit send:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/devio/=
b
ase/communications_resource_handles.asp


> Never tried it, good luck.

It works.

thanks,


Andras


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