Direct access to LPT1

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.de
Fri Jul 25 12:38:46 CDT 2003


On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:41:10PM +0100, E Lea wrote:
> 
> >    E> I'm playing around with a program that controls a small "design
> >    E> cutter" - it's basically a plotter that connects via the parallel
> >    E> port.
> >
> >    E> There is some Windows CAD software that knows about the plotter and
> >    E> sends commands to it, as far as I can tell in one of two ways:
> >
> >    E> 1) Through a printer driver. It doesn't seem too bothered about the
> >    E> details of the driver though. I'm assuming that one would normally
> >    E> use a generic, text-only Windows driver. This method, apparently,
> has
> >    E> the advantage of the driver buffering the output
> >
> > Wine can't run Ring 0 drivers, like something ending in .sys/ .vxd
> 
> The plotter doesn't need a specific driver - it doesn't even have one. In
> Windows it uses any old printer driver just to open the printer port, then
> sends commands to the plotter through the printer driver.
> 
> Should it not be possible to do this with Wine? Possibly not with CUPS
> though...
Well that should work with cups too, you need to configure a printer
with model "RAW".

bye
	michael
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