Hello Gents,

I got a question regarding my DOSBox setup regarding serial ports. I have PC with native a serial port (for which win7 has allocated COM1 to) and I set up my conf file to COM2 in the sandbox also, like so...

[serial]
serial2=directserial realport:com1

There is a program that I use which communicates with a very old data logger (via RS232) for which has a batch file configuring the ports through

mode com1:9600,,,, > nul

However the application fails to communicate via the COM port. Running 'mode.com com1' just to see if COM1 is setup it echos:

COM2 not existing in this PC. Running 'mode.com'

It has :

*****PRINTER PORT 1 STATUS******
Port status: [ ]
*****VIRTUAL PRINTER PORT 2 INFORMATION*****
Free for redirection to serial ports
*****VIRTUAL PRINTER PORT 3 INFORMATION*****
Free for redirection to serial ports
*****VIRTUAL PRINTER PORT 4 INFORMATION*****
Free for redirection to serial ports

So it seems that no matter how the conf file is setup it only has LPT1 setup and no COM ports.

Does someone know why that is the case ? Btw, I appreciate and understand that this emulation is not for commercial sw and nor do I want support for that, this is more a fundamental question about setting up COM port no to physical serial ports.