TurboCNC in DOS with problem

[GuntisK]

Hi there!
Im just starting in all those CNC things and so on. I have already built driver board for 3 steppers and decided to use TurboCNC program to control my mill. But I have one little problem-when I run this program in Dos there is no STEP/DIR signals in LPT output. But when it is started from WIN98SE there is STEP as well as DIR signals (however many step signals is missed). Whats the problem with DOS? Maybe some other faced this problem. I will be very grateful if you will help me to solve this problem.
P.S. I very apologize if there is some mistakes in my English-its just not my native language.

Guntis

[Bubba]

Guntis,
Art you running in a dos box under windows or did you boot directly to the dos prompt (command line). Turbocnc will not run in a dos box.

It sounds like your trying to run it in a dos box.

[GuntisK]

No, I boot into DOS and then start TCNC. I cant understand if this is PC drivers fault or something else.

[Bubba]

Have your configured your port and the step direction lines in the configuration box and then done a port reset to make it functional? It possibly sounds like windows is sending to one port and turbo is trying to send to a different one?

[samco]

is you printer port in a pci slot or on the motherboard? Some pci/isa cards required drivers to run under dos. (pulling that out of the way back machine)

sam

[GuntisK]

Printer port is on motherboard and is set as h378. I set this value in TCNC but nothing happens although all step/dir lines are configured and reset. How to test LPT port in DOS mode without TCNC, to find out that this port is functional in DOS?
Guntis.

[Mike Nash]

Hook up a printer. From command prompt type:

copy con lpt1

test <Enter>

Then hit F6

It should print. If it's a laser, you may see data was sent but the sheet won't feed by itself.

[GuntisK]

Thanks for advice! I will try this. Exactly today I get one old dot matrix printer.