Subject: Re: 2 lpt ports for a laptop
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 16:46:31 AKDT
A manual switch won't work? I have seen such thing as an automatic
switch, which I don't believe needs a tsr or anything, but I don't know
how they differentiate between the two.. Would a usb -> parrallel
adapter would work? I know belkin makes one
Justin
Adam Elkins wrote:
>Andy Hall wrote:
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>>I have an interesting question I am stuck on.
>>Back in the days of DOS companies used to make a parrallel port
>>splitter. It was a 'Y' cable, one end connected to lpt1 on the
>>back of a pc, went to a little V shaped box with a cable coming
>>out of each end, lpt1 and lpt2, you would load up a little tsr
>>that would capture all printing request and tell the little box
>>which cable to send it to, lpt1 or lpt2.
>>I need one of these for a laptop to run an old program on (obviously
>>not windows) so I can have an lpt1 and lpt2 on a laptop.
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>>I know this is the aklug forum but right now
>>Any help would be appreciated, Thank You.
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>Strange, I don;t see this being very hard to construct....Consider it,
>this thing may be hard to find.
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>Adam
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