Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MMC>> This is normal for MSD when there is a conflict.  No software
 MMC>> can weed out a conflict, only tell that there IS a conflict.

 RJT> I seem to also recall that MSD will tell you that there's stuff
 RJT> on the first three com ports when in actual fact you might have
 RJT> something like 1, 2, and 4 in there..

 JB> The BIOS never skips COM-port numbers.  if you have  ports on 3F8
 JB> 2F8  and 2E8  it'll number them com1 com2 com3  even though the
 JB> last one (2E8) is the "com4" address.

 JB> Dos follows the BIOS, MSD may be following the DOS naming of the
 JB> ports. 

Hmm.  I wasn't aware of that.  I wonder why it shows up "right"
in other software,  then?

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