Hi all,work in VirtualBox and need to redirect the LPT to COM.
I'm trying to restore a very old DOS program that uses the LPT. I've been running it in a (very old) Parallels Desktop VM but the LPT-to-file functionality doesn't work properly from v9 onwards, and v8 is totally end-of-lifed. I'm trying to get this to
I've gotten the Parallels HDDs working fine in Vbox -- I can boot, I can run the old DOS program just fine. But, I can't redirect the LPT -- the "mode" command isn't found (DOS is complaining it's a "bad command"). So apparently I don't have MODE.COMinstalled, and I'm not sure where to get it.
Any ideas on how to get MODE working? Or, might anyone know how to redirect LPT to a text file in VirtualBox?
Thanks in advance for your patience as I am a complete DOS luddite (and I don't use Windows, this is a pure DOS VM).
Thank you!
--- Amir
OK, I've resolved this but have a different question now. =P It turns out
my existing DOS installation on the Parallels VM used a basic 6.22
install which had only the first install disk's worth of stuff.
BUT -- when I tried a _fresh_ install from the 3-disk set, the ASSIGN
command kept returning an error ("incorrect DOS version").
I tried using
SETVER but could not find a version number that would work properly.
That shouldn't happen. Even MS-DOS 5.0's MODE already support LPT.
That shouldn't happen either. Chances are those disk set are custom compiled. Get a correct disk set from Internet Archive.
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