[PD] comport port numbers :: bash trick

[Martin Peach]

Martin Peach wrote:
> Martin Peach wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> On the latest version of [comport], the [info( message should print 
>>> out a similar output to the Pd window.
>> Don't try it on Windows though, you'll crash pd.
>>    for(i=1; i<COMPORT_MAX; i++)
>>    {
>>        /* TODO: this should actually probe ports */
>>        post("\t%d - COM%s", i, i);
>>    }
>> doesn't work as well as being useless and irritating (it is supposed 
>> to just print 98 lines of COM names).
>> But since i isn't a string, post() crashes.
>> I'm looking into how to enumerate serial ports on Windows properly.
>> It looks like you have to open each device to find out about it, 
>> unlike on linux where they are listed as files.
>>
> So I changed it in cvs. Now you get a list of available serial ports 
> in Windows as well. At least it works for me but I only have one port 
> here so I don't know if it _really_ works.
>

Now I'm trying it on linux where I have only two ports and I get the 
full list of 32 devices. Maybe we should try probing them all to see 
which ones actually exist?

Martin