Or they could just get on the ball and start making compliant USB devices. :)
-bmb 73 de w2suq -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:21 PM To: Ron Stordahl; DXBase Subject: Re: [DXBase] Antenna switching using LPT Ron, This is true and will only become more restrictive. Some companies make special drivers to try and get around this, but even they are becoming difficult options and prone to failure. Just look at the postings about folks trying to make CW work on new systems with the new derived serial ports and you quickly realize that hardware is changing. The only solution that I see for the future is that the makers of ham oriented devices are going to have to change their mindsets and start writing their interfaces in compliance with the Windows hardware architecture. Traditionally, ham devices use the bully approach by setting leads in peculiar ways, turning leads on and off at the hardware UART level and so forth. Those practices have always been non standard but it could be forced to work. Nowadays, the OS and hardware are not so forgiving. Just my two cents. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: [DXBase] Antenna switching using LPT > I have heard that with Windows XP the user programs do not have sufficient > control control over the LPT ports to allow using them for antenna > selection. > > Can anyone verify this? > > Ron N5IN > > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
