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From: network@mstr.hgc.edu (craig chaiken)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Switching COM: Ports
Summary: assign is for block devices, not character devices
Message-ID: <723@mstr.hgc.edu>
Date: 10 May 89 06:56:34 GMT
References: <9593@dasys1.UUCP> <412@carroll1.UUCP>
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Organization: The Hartford Graduate Center, Hartford, CT.
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In article <412@carroll1.UUCP>, tkopp@carroll1.UUCP (Tom Kopp) writes:
> In article <9593@dasys1.UUCP> jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt) asks: 
> >Is there a way to fake out a PC into talking to a different COM port?
> Basically, before you are going to use the modem, enter the following line:
> assign com1 = com2

MSDOS's ASSIGN command reassigns block devices (disk drives), not character
devices such as COM1.  Use the command MODE COM1=COM2 to make COM1 be COM2.
You can also achieve this effect by copying the word at address 0000:402 to
0000:400.

Craig Chaiken
Hartford Graduate Center
Computing Services
network@mstr.hgc.edu