🚀 go-pugleaf

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 :-)

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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