On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > "com" is a reserved name in Windows. It's best to steer clear of it in > any context you can. You may be catching it in your "if test -c com1" > version.
We'd _love_ to steer clear of it, particularly since /dev/ttyS0 works for two of our targeted systems. We need to know that the "if test -c /dev/ttyS0" will work on all Cygwin boxes from Win95 through WinXP. The test for "com1" was working just fine except for very recently on a few WinXP systems (but appears to work on other WinXP boxes). I'm delaying a new release and staying with the "if test -d /proc/registry" bit until we can get that question answered. That last works but it's ugly. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
