[Q] Dealing with serial port ids on PCs and Macs

Leo Burd leoburd at media.mit.edu
Sun Jun 23 21:00:51 UTC 2002


- Folks,

The first serial port available on Windows PCs is number 1, whereas on
Macs it's number 0.  How can I detect which underlying platform I am
working on and make the appropriate settings automatically?  Isn't there
a way to make this port id distinction more transparent?

Cheers,

.L.




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