On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Is there any way to use more than 3 LPTx ports?

No. The BIOS (any BIOS, except the 8088 which has 4) doesn't support more
than 3.

> I have a DOS application that needs lots of printers. This worked back
> when we actually run it under DOS and it works under Win98 now. (Tho I
> realize having that many printer ports is not really a common thing.)

I'm not sure what LPTx you're talking about here. Isn't it a network
printer? LPT5 does simply not exist -- and I wouldn't know which parallel
port it would use from DOS' point of view...

If the printer works like a file then you could just try to link to it on
an lredir'ed drive in Linux (printer would be d:\printer.foo or something
like that).

Bart

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