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Article #1945Re: Printer port
From: Tom
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:00
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Depends on the port itself. Older boards have unidirectional ports. Newer boards have bi-directional ports. Thats what makes Windows 95 DCC work or DOS Interlink work on parallel ports. The BIOS setup on a new board usually has options for the operation of parallel port.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffec8,52d3767fd791e03d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidffec8,public X-Google-Thread: f8e37,52d3767fd791e03d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,52d3767fd791e03d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,52d3767fd791e03d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 10265e,52d3767fd791e03d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10265e,public From: Tom <tvaiskun@novia.net> Subject: Re: Printer port Date: 1997/11/21 Message-ID: <3475F4E7.EA3@novia.net> X-Deja-AN: 291403971 References: <01bcf5a9$7c81f0e0$bacbacce@b1rpto20.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: tvaiskun@novia.net Organization: Newscene Public Access Usenet News Service (http://www.newscene.com/) Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware