On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> As Linux cannot recognise or drive the printer itself, it has nothing
> to present to the Windows session, so the session won't see any
> hardware at all. VMWare does not let client OSes access the hardware
> directly, so even the original Winprinter drivers running under the
> client Win9x/NT session will not work.
If this is true, then there goes my last reason to expend effort getting
it to work. This goes, I would suspect, for many other people, too. As
someone else suggested, the price tag alone encourages just buying another
computer.
Trevor Johnston
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