Can't print in parallel port using Windows Host and FreeDOS Guest

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ligurt
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Re: Can't print in parallel port using Windows Host and FreeDOS Guest

Post by ligurt »

LPT1.4 is just because you have four printers installed on the LPT1 port.
Last edited by mpack on 10. Jan 2022, 11:10, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Can't print in parallel port using Windows Host and FreeDOS Guest

Post by mpack »

ligurt wrote:LPT1.4 is just because you have four printers installed on the LPT1 port.
Hmm. There's quite a lot wrong with that small comment.
  • LPTx identifies a parallel port, not a printer.
  • LPTx ports can't be shared, so there could never be more than one printer on the LPT1 port.
  • I thought perhaps you might have been referring to VirtualBox documentation that uses the symbol "--lpt<1-N>" to identify a range of LPT ports. But in fact 4 is not mentioned as a max in the VirtualBox docs AFAICS.
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