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

Sun Jun 23 22:00:53 UTC 2002

On Sunday 23 June 2002 02:00 pm, Leo Burd wrote:
> - Folks,
>
> The first serial port available on Windows PCs is number 1,

Not necessarily. It's possible to have only (say) COM4: and COM5: 
(which I have on my Win2K system). In which case the first port would 
be 4.

It is true that the first *possible* serial port on Windoze is #1, 
though the system does not check (as I recall) that you actually have 
a COM1:

Similarly in Linux; you may not have a /dev/ttyS0 (or in fact any 
/dev/ttyS?).

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