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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: What's the differance between serial Port A & Port B?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 21:06:36 GMT
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In article <57715.272d5199@pttrnl.nl> nugteren@pttrnl.nl writes:
>I have written a serial port driver which works fine on port A (modem port),
>but when I tried rewriting it to port B (printer port) I get error -98
>(portNotCf : Driver Open error, port not configured for this connection).

Sounds like you have AppleTalk on.   Thus, you can't use the printer port for
serial communications.
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