[PD] comport issue

[Martin Peach]

renaud.herne at belgacom.be wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> I got something similar last night.
> I tried to interface a serial mouse to one of my com ports.
> The idea behind this is to get more handy controls at no cost.
> I checked the proto of the mouse I found back in stuff with a terminal and a hex editor.
> It mached the description of a Microsoft 2 button mouse (3 data words of 7 bits 1200 bps no parity one stop no handshake)
> So far so good
> But I didn't recieved anything in comport (after turning off the teminal to release the com)
> I also tried something less exotic (another PC connected wit a null modem cable to the port  - Both running 9600-8-N-1 no handshake)
> But I wasn't able to get anything.
> I noticed that open 0 opens COM1,  open 1 opens com 2...
>
>   
If so you have an old version of comport. The latest version will 
probably work better.
Martin