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RE: serial ports


On 23 April 2006 15:26, Alexander J. Herrmann wrote:

> And what is the final answer? Is there a
> 
> /dev/ttySx
> in Cygwin which can be used in Perl or C, even if I can not see it with ls?
> Alex

  Oh, blimey, didn't you see that!  Igor already answered it: the answer is
yes, the /dev directory is a bit funny because it's virtual, but you can see
it by entering "ls -la /dev/ttyS0" explicitly; the mapping is that windows COM
port N is dev/ttyS N minus one; and although "ls -la /dev/ttyS.." will work
for more serial ports than there actually are, you'll get ENOENT if you try
and use one that doesn't correspond to an actual windows COMx device.  See 

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00553.html

    cheers,
      DaveK
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