A creature called Ian Timms screamed at Mike Stella:

MS>   So you want something that can take the com handle, and tell you what
MS>port (COM1, COM2, etc) it really is?  I see.  That would be very 
MS>useful, but I can't think of a way to do it.  Could you do 
MS>it using IOCTL functions, like you would set the settings 
MS>of the COM port?

 IT> There's no way to determine the ports symbolic name (ie.
 IT> COM1) from the handle that I know of off hand, as the handle
 IT> is just a  normal system file handle.

 IT> If there was a function anywhere that can give you the file
 IT> name for a given handle then I would expect to get back
 IT> '/DEV/COMn' from it. But frankly I can't remember seeing any
 IT> such function in the docs.

   Okay, that's what I thought.  I don't know if such a function would be
all that useful either... but anyways...

   .\\ike Stella

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