Hi all, > I added help screen, possibility to scan other LPT ports and a little > modyfied delay routine. For help screen write lpttest /? link: > http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/lpttest.zip (compiles with TASM and TLINK)
I have thrown Michael Devore's NoMySo Perl script at the source and made a NASM version for people who prefer free assemblers :-) http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/lpttest-nasm.zip In addition, I messed with the code and modified a few things: - made the code nicely indented for easy reading - buffer is in BSS again now (and btw, 1024h is not 1024 ;-) so binary size is 2 kilobytes again now - multi line strings are only one string, not multi - modified the port number / address display, new hex2str - modified int2str for fun, now uses 1x div and 2x aam ;-) - there is no lpt4, only lpt1 to lpt3. suggestion: probe all printers and ignore command line? depends on whether and how you want to use lpttest in batch files... - commented out the "out baseport,4" for testing. GOOD: this means you no longer print a diamond in dosemu and non-pnp printers. BAD: it is quite possible that some printers now no longer show their pnp string, please test - modified the delay and delay calibration functions: now waits 0.5 sec for calibration and 1 msec for each delay, using a 48 bit counter. Note: In dosemu on my 2 GHz PC, 1 msec is only 600 delay loop iterations (because the loop contains I/O port access which is slow). Suggestion: use a 32 bit counter and calibrate during only 0.054 sec? I hope you like the changes, Laaca :-). As said, open issues are: - tune delay handling further? - make "show for all printers" the default? - maybe even remove command line handling? - out baseport,4 should be re-enabled after somebody figures out how to check for ieee1284 printer presence before that The last point has most priority now if you ask me :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
