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No comment has been added lately, so it's time to finalize this question.
Please leave any recommendations within the next seven days as to who deserves the points, or if they should be refunded.

PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS COMMENT AS AN ANSWER!

RavenOfThought
EE Cleanup Volunteer

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You can also hack MSCOMM32.ocx with a hex editor to remove this limitation.<br />
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Look for the byte sequence 3D 10 00 in the file and change it to 3D FF 00.<br />

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You can also hack MSCOMM32.ocx with a hex editor to remove this limitation.

Look for the byte sequence 3D 10 00 in the file and change it to 3D FF 00.


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I'm working with a USB to serial converter and have 24 rs-232 serial ports on my WinXP machine. &nbsp;I can manually interact with all 24 ports via HyperTerminal, however, my app only picks up comm ports 16 or lower. &nbsp;Is this a limitation of mscomm32.ocx?
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I'm working with a USB to serial converter and have 24 rs-232 serial ports on my WinXP machine.  I can manually interact with all 24 ports via HyperTerminal, however, my app only picks up comm ports 16 or lower.  Is this a limitation of mscomm32.ocx?

mscomm32.ocx limitations

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