From a770d5c0b37b44b62d954de90685afbcbf3a187e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Black W9MDB <mdblack98@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:06:24 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Allow .\com3\\ as a valid COM port address

---
 src/misc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/misc.c b/src/misc.c
index bdec555ec..2b8c5b1d8 100644
--- a/src/misc.c
+++ b/src/misc.c
@@ -1982,8 +1982,8 @@ int HAMLIB_API parse_hoststr(char *hoststr, int hoststr_len, char host[256],
 
     if (strncasecmp(hoststr, "com", 3) == 0) { return -1; }
 
-    // escaped COM port like \\.\COM3
-    if (strstr(hoststr, "\\\\.\\")) { return -1; }
+    // escaped COM port like \\.\COM3 or \.\COM3
+    if (strstr(hoststr, "\\.\\")) { return -1; }
 
     // Now let's try and parse a host:port thing
     // bracketed IPV6 with optional port