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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: printing via the serial port
Message-ID: <5870042@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 17 May 91 17:45:07 GMT
References: <91136.142619SASDDI@vm.sas.com>
Organization: HP Lovecraft Division
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>Now I have a PC (Leading Edge D) sitting beside it.  I would like to
>hook the printer to an A/B switch so I can use it from the PC sometimes
>and from the terminal othertimes.  But as far as I know (which obviously
>isn't very far) a printer is expected to be hooked to a PC via the
>parallel port.

Just hook the printer to the serial port of your computer using
the switch box. This port is most likely COM1 unless you have a really 
screwy configuration. Use the mode command to set up COM1 as a printer 
and re-direct LPT1 to COM1. You may have to reconfigure your software 
to tell them the printer is now on COM1 and no longer on LPT1 but that 
should be it.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP NPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com