Ramon van Handel wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >If there are no dissenters, I am about to try and add simple parallel
> >printer support to plex86 (once I've got it working under Bochs).
> >
> >If anyone else is already doing this please let me know.
>
> Uh... doesn't BOCHS *have* parallel port support ? Adding that is trivial, just
> stick it into plugins/bochs/iodev and add the neccessary lines to the makefiles
> and the initialisation function.
>
No, BOCHS does not have parallel support. The files are there but they are
skeletal. The BIOS also needs updating so that DOS and other lower level guests
will function correctly.
BTW, where can I find tools86 so that I can compile it???
>
> Or, perhaps you mean that you really emulate a printer, using a plugin that
> outputs PostScript or something ?
>
> Ramon
As I replied to Tim, I am intending to pipe the bytes into an instance of lpr. As
such, if postscript is transmitted to the device, the magic filters of lpr should
kick in and pipe the stream through ghostscript.
The code will act just like a transparrant buffer between the guest and lpr,
behaving like a printer port for the guest and a standard application to lpr.
Well, that's the plan anyway ;-)
Bryan
