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Serial Solutions Newcom Parameters
Handshake switch).
/H5,4 Serial port COM5 only uses handshake type 4.
/H5-7,4 Serial ports COM5, COM6 and COM7 all use
handshake type 4.
/H5-,4 Serial ports COM5, 6, 7 all the way to maxport
-the maximum supported by the driver, eg
COM16 use handshake type 4.
/H-5,4 Serial ports COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4 and
COM5 all use handshake type 4.
<range> [, range]
A list of one or more ranges of ports. Commands for
setting up the shared interrupt multiport cards have to
define numerous serial ports and so accept a series of
ranges.
5-8,10-12,14-
Serial ports COM5 to COM8 and COM10 to
COM12 and COM14 to the maximum
supported by the driver.
-4,7,9-11 Serial ports COM1 to COM4, COM7 and
COM9 to COM11
<irq>
A decimal number in the range 2-15, specifying a PC bus
interrupt line.
/I3,10 Serial port COM3 is using interrupt 10.
/I4,11 Serial port COM4 is using interrupt 11.
<hs> One decimal number in the range 0-4 used to specify
which software flow control method is in use.
<hexaddr>
An hexadecimal word in the range 0000h-0FFFFh, this is
used to specify the i/o address of a serial port. The word
must start with a number 0-9 or a-f. The address may have
an optional ’h’ or ’H’ suffice.
/A1,03F8 Serial port COM1 at address 03f8 hex.
/A2,2f8 Serial port COM2 at address 02f8 hex.
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