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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Coherent 4.0.1 /dev/lp*: name incompatible with MS-DOS
- Message-ID: <9212271118.30@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:18:21 GMT
- References: <Bzu071.4vH@csn.org> <92122793@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp>
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Lines: 19
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- In article <92122793@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp> kenji@rd.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake) writes:
- >Michael Willett (wizard@teal.csn.org) wrote:
- >: The anser is in the FAQ. (Who takes care of it anyway?) :)
- >: Coherent lpt ports and MS-WHAT ports are different.
- >
- >Well, I wonder WHY MWC made it different. *sigh*
-
- Coherent and all other commercial UNIX systems are different than MSDOS.
- Coherent looks at the parallel ports in a logical manner from low address
- to high address. MSDOS has it's own wierd way of addressing the ports,
- in that it justs takes the first parallel port it finds to be lpt1, no
- matter what it's memory address is.
-
- Usually, it should only matter if you have more than one parallel port on
- your system.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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