SerialPort cross-platform question...

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Sun Feb 10 23:45:30 UTC 2002


On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:14 pm, Kevin Fisher wrote:

> So, for UNIX the serial ports are enumerated from 0, and on Windows
> they are enumerated from 1.  How does it work on the Mac? (sadly I don't
> own a Mac to try it on)
>
> Is this expected behaviour, or is it going to change in future releases?

Actually, the peculiar enumeration of the ports is a Mac-ism. On the Windoze 
and Unix platforms, it would make more sense to supply a name.

And it's not clear how the ports are numbered on the Mac when you hang USB 
serial ports on one (per Dan Ingalls).

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Ned Konz
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