[Tutor] pyLPD

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> I wanted to working with LPT1: on windows, but it seems to 
> bee impossible.
> Simply I can't capture the stream sent to it.

Have you checked the MODE command? Its DOS but works even in W2K etc...

Heres the /? output:
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C:\>mode /?
Configures system devices.

Serial port:       MODE COMm[:] [BAUD=b] [PARITY=p] [DATA=d] [STOP=s]
                                [to=on|off] [xon=on|off] [odsr=on|off]
                                [octs=on|off] [dtr=on|off|hs]
                                [rts=on|off|hs|tg] [idsr=on|off]

Device Status:     MODE [device] [/STATUS]

Redirect printing: MODE LPTn[:]=COMm[:]

Select code page:  MODE CON[:] CP SELECT=yyy

Code page status:  MODE CON[:] CP [/STATUS]

Display mode:      MODE CON[:] [COLS=c] [LINES=n]

Typematic rate:    MODE CON[:] [RATE=r DELAY=d]
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Note the bit about redirecting LPTn....

HTH,

Alan g.