Duplicating Com Ports

[vbehler]

Is it possible to duplicate com ports for a printer as i have a label printer that mainly uses 1 program but when i use my barcode program i must re install my printer because the two programs refuse to share the one com port can anyone help

 

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Vince Behler

Burrangong Meat Processors

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Re: Duplicating Com Ports

 

"vbehler" wrote in message news:vbehler.2vykda@news.home.local...

>

> Is it possible to duplicate com ports for a printer as i have a

> label

> printer that mainly uses 1 program but when i use my barcode program

> i

> must re install my printer because the two programs refuse to share

> the

> one com port can anyone help

 

 

The programs aren't sharing a COM port. They might both specify the

same printer. The printer isn't defined in the programs. You select

the printer and the printer driver decides which port to use. The

programs might be sharing the same printer but they shouldn't care

about what port the printer uses since that is a property of the

*printer* that you configure outside those programs.

 

I'm guessing there is something critical that you are not mentioning,

like these are DOS programs that try to write directly to a port

rather than send to a printer device. DOS programs that attempt

direct access to hardware won't run well or at all under an NT-based

version of Windows.

[vbehler]

Re: Duplicating Com Ports

 

nope neither are dos programs and the computer is running win xp pro sp2