[Ham-Computers] Clearing Com1?

[kd4e]

Question.  Somewhere buried in the equally cluttered
areas of my mind and my radio room is the command to
tell dos to treat a call to com1 as com2 and com2 as
com1.

Anyone remember that command, please?

 > kd4e wrote:
> I am trying to program my scanner but something is
> grabbing and holding the Com1 serial port on my old
> IBM ThinkPad 600e and I cannot remember how to discover
> what it is and how to free up Com1.


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