From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Kick lpr, want direct access to lpt1 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:02:17 +0300 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <403E42B9.2010203@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Denny Schierz wrote: > i need direct access to lpt1 for the dongle and printer, but dosemu > wants only print to lpr :-( Yes, because dosemu doesn't have a necessary bios part for driving the parport. So you can't print using a direct access. Perhaps you can find some TSR which will substitute the relevant bios part, perhaps you can port the part of a Bochs bios to dosemu, but that all would be a pain. The easiest way would be to stick with lpr for printing. Besides, it is much more flexible (remote printing etc). Maybe you can use LPT1 for printing via lpr, and LPT2 for dongle via the direct access?