[ale] New to the game

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Pilar Losada wrote:
> 
> I give it a shot and let you know what happens. Since the modem is on com4,
> ( internal) I will start with ttyS04 and work my way backwards

Note that devices are (almost?) universally numbered from
0 in Linux, so COM1 under DOS/Win is /dev/ttyS0, COM2 is /dev/ttyS1...
thus COM4 is /dev/ttyS3.

Cheers,

-- Joe
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
 which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
 problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
 --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"

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