COM Port Sharing

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I’m new to printer driver development. is it possible that you have an installed printer driver at a certain port and another application to access that port so as to share the printer with the printer driver and the said application?

Thanks in advance.

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Why do you need your application to directly access the printer port? If
you are interested in reading bi-di status back from the device, you
should use a port monitor or language monitor.

  • Ashwin

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Subject: [ntdev] COM Port Sharing

I’m new to printer driver development. is it possible that you have an
installed printer driver at a certain port and another application to
access that port so as to share the printer with the printer driver and
the said application?

Thanks in advance.

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A certain application needs to send data directly to the printer thru the port without using the printer driver. At the same time, Windows applications, like Notepad, must be able to print at the same printer using the printer driver, configured to the same port.

Thanks for the reply.

Ashwin Needamangala wrote:
Why do you need your application to directly access the printer port? If
you are interested in reading bi-di status back from the device, you
should use a port monitor or language monitor.

- Ashwin

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Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:01 PM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] COM Port Sharing

I’m new to printer driver development. is it possible that you have an
installed printer driver at a certain port and another application to
access that port so as to share the printer with the printer driver and
the said application?

Thanks in advance.

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