Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port question

2006-04-19 Thread Robert Riebisch
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

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port question

2006-04-18 Thread Johnson Lam
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

[Freedos-user] parallel port question

2006-04-18 Thread coralline algae
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