Re: com1 access denied - win xp

to the serial port using "COM1" through the Cygwin shell. Thanks again for your replies guys. - Mike Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Wood Sent: 20 May 2004 17:23 Hi-ya, I get an "Access is denied" error message when attempti

com1 access denied - win xp

Hi-ya, I get an "Access is denied" error message when attempting to create a serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. In cygwin, when I execute: ls -l COM1 I get the following: -rw-r--r--1 mwoodmkgroup-0 Jan 1 1970 COM1 However, when I execute: