I wrote this last July on an internal blog. Now it seems that it should be made available outside as well. It is only meant for testing COM port mappings with Citrix but the ideas could be applied elsewhere with regards to building fake device names.
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Since I am doing testing with PortICA and COM [...]
Archive for the 'COM Port Redirection' Category
Techniques for Generating Fake COM Ports
April 3, 2008HyperTerminal Goes Hyper
February 4, 2008I recently had the pleasure of debugging HyperTerminal on PortICA. It is going to take some time to put together the story of how things turned out but I wanted to start by saying something obvious.
If you are going to use HyperTerminal on Windows XP (since Vista does not have it), be sure to never [...]
MAPPORT - Simple alternative to NET USE for Citrix COM and LPT Ports
July 14, 2007I posted this internally first but have realized that it has value outside Citrix as well.
Surprise. Citrix could support more than COM9 for its COM port redirection.
Currently Citrix recommends using NET USE to map COM ports. The problem is that NET USE has a feature (bug?) that only allows up to COM9. [...]
