Oh and you find the comport information in device manager under comports:

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Gregory McGill <[email protected]>
wrote:

> you have to tell your dosbox the serial port information:
>
> https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:SerialPort
>
> basically your usb port will be like COM5 so you have to set port 1 to
> realport:COM5
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I was afraid of that. Well it’s not liking my setup here so I’ll have to
>> pull an old laptop out of mothballs at work tomorrow which has a real
>> serial port and XP on it. That may solve my problem. I’m using DOSbox but
>> neither TEENY or DESKLINK is happy with COM1 being a USB->serial adapter.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* M100 [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *John
>> R. Hogerhuis
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:06 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [M100] TEENY.EXE
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I’ve been trying to get TEENY.EXE to work on my desktop. I’ve got a
>> USB-serial adapter set to com1 but TEENY is unable to detect a laptop. I’m
>> having to run TEENY.EXE in a DOS box due to it being a 16bit application.
>> Does it require a real serial port?
>>
>>
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> That does sound familiar. When I ran TEENY.EXE it might have been under
>> DOSBOX or DOSEmu.
>>
>>
>>
>> But when I did it it was definitely with a USB serial port, which these
>> emulators support just fine AFAIR.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- John.
>>
>
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