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Disposition-Notification-To: Stas Maximov <stmax AT pigeonpoint DOT com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:28:53 -0800
From: Stas Maximov <stmax AT pigeonpoint DOT com>
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To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: can not open com10, com11, com12 and higher
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Yes, it does work on Win95 and WinNT.

Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:16:17PM -0800, Stas Maximov wrote:
> >The simple fix to winsup/path.cc given below would solve the problem.
> >Can someone integrate this?
> >
> >Stas.
> >
> >
> >bash-2.02$ diff -u path.cc.00 path.cc
> >--- path.cc.00  Wed Oct 27 20:55:55 1999
> >+++ path.cc     Thu Dec 16 14:49:36 1999
> >@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
> >   "\\dev\\ttym",
> >   "\\dev\\tty%d",
> >   "\\dev\\ptym",
> >-  "com%d",
> >+  "\\\\.\\com%d",
> >   "\\dev\\pipe",
> >   "\\dev\\piper",
> >   "\\dev\\pipew",
> 
> Does this work for both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT?
> 
> cgf

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