Alain wrote:
We are dedicating a machine to just that purpose but the problem is the current dedicated machine runs DOS and nothing else. This limits us to how we can spool data and modify forms on the machine.Your right about the packet driver, that should work but if my PCI Channel card uses DMA I'm pretty much screwed right?
No, the packet driver will work in any case. Direct access will not, but who cares if the packet driver does the trick.
Packet driver has a connection with Linux kernel and not with the hardware. That is why it will allways work. Just the same as graphic will allways work under X, as it completely ignore the real hardware.
But I would like to ask a question: If you are interfacing with a very expensive Hardware, why don't you just dedicate a machine exclusively for that? A new machine would cost a small fraction of that PCI board alone...
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My idea is to run Linux on a dedicated machine with dosemu running the spool sofware inside Linux. This will allow me to access the DOS drive from Linux and Windows via the network and SMB. I can then create custom jobs and forms without going over to the physical DOS box.
So is the "Packet Driver" a way to connect DOS to the PCI bus or a way to connect DOS to a PCI Network card only? Packet sounds kinda networkish and may be confusing me.
- Mark
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