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HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1

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Is there a way to get the parallel port of HyperCom3+ (zorro) to work with OS 4.1? I have tried with the v. 2.98 driver set/Mountlist for OS 3.x, and the HPR: is mounted, but cannot be opened when I try to print e.g. from PageStream 4.1. Is there any fix for this?
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Re: HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1

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Gregor wrote:Is there a way to get the parallel port of HyperCom3+ (zorro) to work with OS 4.1? I have tried with the v. 2.98 driver set/Mountlist for OS 3.x, and the HPR: is mounted, but cannot be opened when I try to print e.g. from PageStream 4.1. Is there any fix for this?
Hi Gregor, unfortunately I don't think any of our beta testers have a HyperCom board, so I guess the answer is, I don't know.

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Re: HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1

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I found a solution to the problem! The original mountlist needed just one extra line which I 'borrowed' from the dosdriver for 'PAR:'. There was also one line which did not have effect anymore so I commented it out.
I show the modifed list here: (It might also work with other HyperCom boards using hyperPAR.device)
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/* Zorro II HyperCOM3 Z port-handler example mount entry for parallel port*/

EHandler = L:port-handler
Stacksize = 1024
Priority = 5
Device = hyperPAR.device
Unit = 0
/*Baud = 0 /* set this to ZERO for parallel.devices */*/
Control = "PAR"
---
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Re: HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1 [SOLVED]

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Gregor wrote:I found a solution to the problem!
Great work!

Maybe DarrenHD can put this solution in the FAQ...
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Re: HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1 [SOLVED]

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ssolie wrote:
Gregor wrote:I found a solution to the problem!
Great work!

Maybe DarrenHD can put this solution in the FAQ...
I'll update it :)

thanks for the report!
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Re: HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1

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You should also be able to remap parallel.device to hyperPAR.device

Edit the Devs:NSDPatch.cfg

Add the line

DEVICE parallel.device UNIT 0 MAPTODEVICE hyperPAR.device UNIT 0 MACHINE=CLASSIC

Could you report back if that works too.
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Re: HyperCom3+ and OS 4.1

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JurassicC wrote:You should also be able to remap parallel.device to hyperPAR.device

Edit the Devs:NSDPatch.cfg

Add the line

DEVICE parallel.device UNIT 0 MAPTODEVICE hyperPAR.device UNIT 0 MACHINE=CLASSIC

Could you report back if that works too.
Thanks for your advice! Unfortunately that patch does not seem to have any effect, at least in my machine... If I try to print to "PAR:" from PageStream, the busy-pointer stays there forever but nothing happens. And if I try to print e.g. from Notepad after having selected "parallel.device" instead of 'hyperPAR.device" in the Prefs/Printer, I get the messages "Make printer on-line" and "Error while printing! Error 1". The same messages come also without the patch-line in the 'NSDPatch.cfg', so obviously the patch does not direct the data to the hypercom port.
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