[WT-support] Parallel port keying with Windows 7

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Thanks for providing the important details.  It does seem to be the case
that installing Port95NT.EXE may not possible with Windows 7 64-bit, only
Windows 7 32-bit.  You could try viewing all the files in that temp
directory in Windows Explorer,

...\Temp\pft1~tmp\

and mark SETUP.EXE as "Run as Admin" and "Run in XP Compat. mode", then run
it, but I'm not optimistic.

I suggest trying the solution found on the web, mentioned previously:

Download and install InpOut32 from

http://www.highrez.co.uk/scripts/download.asp?package=InpOutBinaries

then rename inpout32.dll to DlPortIO.dll and copy it to the Win-Test
installation directory and see what happens.

73,
Bob, N6TV


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley
<W2RU at frontiernet.net>wrote:

>
> On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
>
> What error message do you get?
>
>
> Here's the sequence:
>   1.  Go to my download directory and right click on "port95nt.exe".
>   2.  Click on "Properties", and select "Compatibility" tab.
>   3.  Click on "Run in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2".
>  (Since I've been doing LPT port keying in CT-Win for years on my older
> machine, under WinXP SP2.)
>   3a.  Also click on "Run as Administrator".
>   4.  Click on "Apply" and then "OK"; the box closes.
>   5.  Double click on "port95nt.exe".
>   6.  A new window opens, saying:
>           "The following file is already installed on the system:
>  ".....Temp\pft1~tmp\SETUP.INS".  (From my previous failed attempts.)
>  Overwrite?  I choose "Yes".
>   7.  The above repeats for the following files:  setup.exe; setup.pkg;
> setup.iss; setup.ini; _mst32I.EX_; _ISDEL.EXE; _SETUP.DLL; _SETUP.LIB;
> _SETUP.1; DISK1.ID; _setup.2; Disk2.id.
>   8.  After overwriting the last of those files, that window closes and a
> new one opens with the title:  "Unsupported 16-bit Application".  The text
> in the window says:
>           "The program or feature "....\Temp\pft1~tmp\SETUP.EXE" cannot
> start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows.  Please
> contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is
> available.  I click "OK".
>   9.  Another window is behind that one.  It says:
>           "Unable to Execute:   "...SETUP.EXE /SMS".  I click "OK".
> 10.  The next window says "Package For the Web Error; Unable to execute the
> specified command line."  I click "OK".  No more windows.
>
> If I should then, in a fit of rash optimism, reboot the PC, I get a window
> following the boot process that says words to the effect of "DLPORTIO.DLL
> did not install."
>
> Bud, W2RU
>
>
> Once you get Port95NT.EXE installed and running
>
>
> Hah!
>
>
> I hope you're using a real parallel port, not a USB-to-Parallel port
> interface; those don't work well enough for CW keying.
>
>
> Agreed.  Yes, I have both a motherboard-mounted LPT1 and a PCI card LPT3 in
> this machine.
>
>
> Again, what error message to you get?  "DLPortIO not loaded?"
>
>
> Yes, preceded by the same sequence described above.
>
> There is one more possible "out".  One reason I bought Win7 Professional 64
> instead of Win7 Home Premium is because with Pro you can download a Windows
> XP Mode add-on and a Virtual PC add-on for free from MS.  I don't know yet
> whether either of them will do any good.  (The former is a 500 MB download
> -- it's coming in as I type this.)
>
> BTW, this is a long-festering issue on this machine.  I just bought the
> copy of Win7 Pro 64 but for months I had been running the Win7 Ultimate 64
> RCE, and I had the same problem trying to key the parallel ports with
> CT-Win.  I know the ports are there because the key line is activated for
> perhaps 30 seconds during boot-up; it's just that we hams aren't allowed to
> get at it.
>
> Bud, W2RU
>
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