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Techniques for Generating Fake COM Ports

I wrote this last July on an internal blog.  Now it seems that it should be made available outside as well.  It is only meant for testing COM port mappings with Citrix but the ideas could be applied elsewhere with

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HyperTerminal Goes Hyper

I recently had the pleasure of debugging HyperTerminal on PortICA.  It is going to take some time to put together the story of how things turned out but I wanted to start by saying something obvious. If you are going

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MAPPORT – Simple alternative to NET USE for Citrix COM and LPT Ports

I posted this internally first but have realized that it has value outside Citrix as well. Surprise. Citrix could support more than COM9 for its COM port redirection. Currently Citrix recommends using NET USE to map COM ports. The problem

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