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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Buncha Questions from a new Amiga owner
Message-ID: <2685@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 16:09:28 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2685
Posted: Wed Nov  4 16:09:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 16:43:55 EST
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: developer shell bridge soundscape

In article <2490@masscomp.UUCP> rad@masscomp.UUCP (Bob Doolittle) writes:
>[Everyone else has a line here - I might as well too]
>
>I have a new A2000, and a few questions.  I'd appreciate any help
>for the "experts" out there.

>Shell question - I compiled the new shell from Matt, using latest Manx
>compiler, and it works great except when run from my original CLI.
>I.E., if I use popcli to get a CLI and run it out of there, it is fine.

see my posting on hddisk.device

>PC bridge/printer question - I have a piece of PC software I want to run
>on the bridge card which is written in BASIC and wants to use the line
>printer (with LPRINT).  I don't have one.  I have heard of a program for
>AmigaDOS (called, imaginatively enough, "cmd"), which diverts output to
>the printer into a file on disk.

A bit of history...on our 6502 based machines CMD was the command
to divert output to a particular device address.


>This would be ideal here, however, the
>docs on the bridge card imply that if the bridge owns the LP, amigaDOS
>can't get to it.  I know nothing about MS-DOS, but can learn if I must
>(yech).  Is there a standard way to do something like this on PCs?  Will
>it work on the Amiga?

Unfortunately, LPT1 allocates the parallel bits itself, so it can
attempt to emulate all the strange things which PC program
writers want to do with their parallel port.
(in doesn't use the parallel port)

What you need to do is write a replacement program on the Amiga side
which uses the printer interrupt bit from the PC to the
Amiga side, and does things other than put the output to 
the parallel bits.  

(you'll need the A500/A2000 tech ref guide before you try this, though)

It would be a nice project; if only I had some time :-)

			andy
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