On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:15 -0600, lsmod wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. > > I already created these symlinks in .wine/dosdevices. > But are they necessary? > They are needed to translate LPTn:, which is all a well-written Windows program should accept as a printer name, to correct Linux /dev/lpn parallel ports. > The keys in the registry are pointing direct to the port 378h and the > Testprogramm also attempts to write direct to this address. > You are doing something else: bypassing the Linux drivers by attempting to talk direct to the hardware. While this may be acceptable with older Windows versions its not a good idea with Linux. > Have i understand correct that your proposal with the daemon and > socket is for running the application in NT+ emulation? > It shouldn't matter because AFAIK Wine supports Windows sockets for all Windows emulations. Sockets is a reliable way of communicating between Windows programs and Linux native programs. Martin
