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- From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Coherent 4.0.1 /dev/lp*: name incompatible with MS-DOS
- Message-ID: <725568911.20293@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:55:11 GMT
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- From: kenji@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
- >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*
- >
- >// Kenji
-
- I put the blame on IBM for having two different ports answer to the name
- "LPT1", depending on which board is plugged in.
-
- Mind you, a fixit program to check the hardware, and alter the drivers any
- time the hardware configuration changes would be fairly simple.
-