Detecting Modems at Startup

Each instance of FileLink must be associated with an available COM port in your PC.

FileLink provides the -p shortcut switch to the purpose of specifying the associated connection when the program starts.

In some cases, you may not know which COM port(s) are available on a given PC. FileLink has the ability to scan the PC for COM ports and then to attempt to detect a modem on each of the ports. This is done by specifying the -px switch.

When auto-detecting COM ports, FileLink will utilize the COM port where the first modem is detected; if no modem is detected, FileLink will utilize the first COM port found. In all cases, if predefined settings for the found COM port exist (previously created using the FileLink configurator), these settings will be used, otherwise the default settings are used.

In addition, the MODEMDETECT script command is available to perform this same operating at script execution time.

See also: Shortcut Properties Command Line Switches