<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I find that there are many com ports that say they are in use but are</div><div>invalid. I used a cable tester application from here:</div><div><a href="http://www.kc8unj.com/interface.html">http://www.kc8unj.com/interface.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>scroll to the bottom and look for the download link:</div><div>interface cable loopback tester. While it will test</div><div>several cables the reason in your case if you have</div><div>many com ports that say they are in use, the tester</div><div>software will report invalid ports. Those are ports still</div><div>written in the registry previously used. But they can be</div><div>used again I've done it several times. When you change</div><div>the driver com port and it says In Use, just ignore and ok </div><div>the change. </div><div><br></div><br><div>
<div><b style="color: rgb(0, 86, 214); "><i><font style="font-size: 14px; ">Sent from my 15.4" MacBook Pro, i7 quad core</font></i> </b></div>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <<a href="mailto:data@ae7q.net">data@ae7q.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-02-08 22:21, Dean Gibson AE7Q
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Well, I use COM ports w/ Chirp into the 100's. I agree that
enumerating or "blindly" extending the list is a bad idea. My
suggestion is to remember any valid (1-256) COM port(s) manually
entered into the "COM box", and present them in future
invocations.<br>
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-- Dean AE7Q<br>
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I see that the new version (0.3.0) enumerates all the serial ports
in use; thanks!!!<br>
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However, it enumerates the serial ports in <b>alphabetical</b>
order, not <b>numeric</b> order.<br>
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I'd suggest the latter, so that COM11 <b>follows</b> COM2, and not
<b>precedes</b> it.<br>
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-- Dean<br>
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