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Old 06-13-2008, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Cableguy View Post
since you are using an IR tower, it must have a com port assigned to it
I don't think it does. I believe that it requires its own USB driver to be installed and my guess would be that it is an HID (Human Interface Device) device (like a keyboard or mouse) as this is an easy way to interface a slow(ish) speed device to USB without writing a complicated driver as Windows already has a generic HID driver available. The interface is by File I/O calls and calls to a Windows dll - HID.DLL
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