Re: Can't print in parallel port using Windows Host and FreeDOS Guest
Posted: 9. Jan 2022, 23:44
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.ligurt wrote:LPT1.4 is just because you have four printers installed on the LPT1 port.
- 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.