- One local printer needs two LPT ports on same machine
- Posted by Hank Allen on February 9th, 2004
I need to know if there is a way on a Windows 98 machine to have a printer
connected directly to the PC use both LPT1 and LPT2. We have one DOS app
that must use LPT1 and another LPT2. The network interface went bad on an
NEC printer we use and we can't afford the $300 to replace it until next
month. Thanks for any help.
Hank Allen
- Posted by PJx on February 10th, 2004
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:55:18 -0600, "Hank Allen" <zrefugee3@yahoo.com>
wrote:
A couple of things come to mind. The MODE command may work and if
not, there were a number of TSR (terminate and stay resident) programs
available that would manipulate the printer ports.
An old assembly programmer could uuse the DEBUG command and change a
couple of bytes in either of your programs to use the other LPT port.
PJ
- Posted by Markeau on February 10th, 2004
Maybe an automatic switchers that is typically used for 2 pc's to
connect to 1 printer?
Hank Allen wrote:
- Posted by Jay on February 10th, 2004
consider connecting the printer on LPT1 and physically disabling LPT2.
Share the printer on LPT1 and map LPT2 (as a virtual port) persistently to
the shared printer. Then any application printing to LPT2 will print to the
printer physically connected to LPT1
"Hank Allen" <zrefugee3@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by Larry on February 12th, 2004
In article <5mfg20lchv4tgtmrdm40cqs94ebqs36cs6@4ax.com>, me@privacy.net
says...
A simple batchfile with the command prn > lpt# does the job for me.
Larry
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