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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: mmpm/2 and pc speaker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.013512.14410@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:35:12 GMT
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- Make sure the user can select what port is used.
- Now if only OS2 had an option to disable the spooler for a specific port :-)
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- In article <199325.4881.39517@dosgate> "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com> writes:
- >
- >In a previous message, David Charlap writes...
- >
- >DC> Maybe, maybe, it could be done with the spooler disabled. The reason
- >DC> the DOS software fails is that the print spooler is buffering and
- >DC> delaying all output to the printer ports. If you disable the spooler
- >DC> (I don't know if this can be done), they might work OK.
- >
- > Hmmm... I remember running some DOS software supporting a D/A
- >convertor on the parallel port under OS/2 and it worked. I must have
- >had the spooler disabled or something. I think I'll try doing that
- >again.
- >
- >DC> As for MMPM/2 drivers, you'd need something to suspend the spooler
- >DC> (not too hard), and then directly access it's ports (harder). I think
- >DC> a device driver might be able to do this, but I don't know if two
- >DC> devices (spooler and your sound driver) can be configured to use the
- >DC> same port or not.
- >
- > Right now, I am trying to see what the possibility of writing a
- >device driver for such a device would be. Seeing as I'm a new C
- >programmer, I don't know what technicalities are involved.
- >
- > Much thanks for your reply! It gives me something to think about
- > now.
- >
- >Mike.
- >
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- >| Mike Frisch Usenet: mike.frisch@canrem.com |
- >| Newmarket, Ontario, Canada |
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