Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!intelhf!agora!billsey From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Parallel ports on the Amiga Message-ID: <1990Oct12.183217.12644@agora.uucp> Date: 12 Oct 90 18:32:17 GMT References: Organization: Open Communication Forum Lines: 44 In article scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) writes: : :More of what I was looking for was something along :the lines of the A2232. A parallel port (one or more....) on a board :that plugs into a Zorro II slot (only have an A2000) that comes with a :replacement parallel.device and a new preferences program. That's what the DigiFeX board does. (My mail to you must have bounced from the original responce.) :The opendevice function supports a unit number for the parallel device :although the 1.4 autodocs say the unit number should always be zero for future :compatibility. The method CBM choose to handle multiple serial ports can :(and should IMHO) be extended to cover multiple parallel ports as well. : :Allow a default prt: and par: to be set up in the new preferences program :that would be unit 0. Unit 1 for the parallel port would of course be :the internal built in parallel port with subsequent units being assigned :to any additional ports. They would be mounted and addressed as prt1:, :prt2:, etc. This keeps things consistent and stays away from kludges :like the printerface (sorry). The preferences program would have to allow :multiple printer drivers to be selected and assigned to all available :parallel ports (or serial ports for that matter, hmmm, had not thought about :handling serial printers on an A2232 board before? Ideas anyone?) : :Anyway, I would really like to have some additional input on this and find :out how much work is involved in setting up a new parallel.device etc. :Comments CATS? DigiFeX did a replacement Port-Handler to allow for multiple unit numbers. They didn't do a replacement preferences, so you only get one or the other, not a choice. : _ : /// /_\ Scot L. Harris ...!tarpit!rtmvax!amigash!scot : \XX/ / \ M I G A Orlando, FL (407)273-1759 :[VoRecOne by Impulse. Now my Amiga hears me, but does it really listen to me?] -- -Bill Seymour billsey@agora ***** American People/Link Amiga Zone Hardware Specialist NES*BILL ***** Bejed, Inc. NES, Inc. Northwest Amiga Group At Home Sometimes (503) 281-8153 (503) 246-9311 (503) 656-7393 BBS (503) 640-0842