Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

USB COM4

0 views
Skip to first unread message

vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com

unread,
May 9, 2010, 9:03:54 PM5/9/10
to
Will a DOS program find COM4 if the USB USR modem says it is on COM4?

What about DOSBOX?

- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]

philo

unread,
May 10, 2010, 6:30:12 PM5/10/10
to
On 05/09/2010 08:03 PM, vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> Will a DOS program find COM4 if the USB USR modem says it is on COM4?
>

A definite "maybe" give it a try and see

pcs365_12

unread,
May 11, 2010, 1:19:26 AM5/11/10
to

no it won't find that coz, when any device or service is using any free
com port its gets upadated in devices list as being used.


--
pcs365_12
------------------------------------------------------------------------
pcs365_12's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/217271.htm
View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/1335491.htm

http://forums.techarena.in

Brian Gregory [UK]

unread,
May 17, 2010, 6:32:15 PM5/17/10
to
"pcs365_12" <pcs365_1...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
news:pcs365_1...@DoNotSpam.com...

>
> no it won't find that coz, when any device or service is using any free
> com port its gets upadated in devices list as being used.

Irrelevant gibberish.

--

Brian Gregory. (In the UK)
n...@bgdsv.co.uk
To email me remove the letter vee.


Brian Gregory [UK]

unread,
May 17, 2010, 6:35:08 PM5/17/10
to
<vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote in message
news:hs7m1q$7jk$1...@reader1.panix.com...

> Will a DOS program find COM4 if the USB USR modem says it is on COM4?

Not in real DOS (ie just DOS with no other OS running).
At least not without some very clever DOS drivers which, as far as I know,
don't exist.


> What about DOSBOX?

Maybe.
I think it depends on how the DOS program is written, but in my experience
there's a pretty good chance of it working pretty well.

0 new messages