Oh, ok, I see what you're talking about. I wouldn't necessarily go calling those internal ports though, since if you for example put in a pci serial board, it would be called ttyS2/com3, but would in actuality be a physical external port. I think virtual ports, or reserved port names would be more appropriate. Greg On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:22:09PM -0500, Glenn Ervin at home wrote: > Modems do. > In windows, > My modem is on com 3 > Internal devices use the internal ports. > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org