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

Cheers
Vince Behler
Burrangong Meat Processors

 

[Vanguard]

"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]

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