coralline algae wrote:
> At that point the vendor said oh sorry you need to buy one of our pc's
> as we only support spp mode and we can supply that pc hardware.
SPP stands for 'Standard Parallel Port'. But the PS/2 bidirectional port
is a standard port with input mode capability, enabled via bi
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:59:03 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
>Can anyone explain how a dos program could be coded to depend on
>a bios feature of the parallel port ?
I found the following page may help:
http://www.beyondlogic.org/spp/parallel.htm
There're a simple C program of finding out the parallel p
I was asked recently to look at a problem with a new pc (hp) and an applicationthey had installed which was not able to print forms on a line printerthe application as it turned out was dos based, i tested the printer with
lpr which worked okafter a support call to the vendor, they asked me to chec