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Vicfred
January 28th, 2009, 04:38 AM
How do I manipulate the ports in C? what can I do with they? I've read a little but it doesn't explain too much, all I know it's that it's different in linux and in Windows and the parallel port has the direction 0x378. Can you give me some examples of applications for this?

NathanB
January 28th, 2009, 06:03 AM
How do I manipulate the ports in C? what can I do with they? I've read a little but it doesn't explain too much, all I know it's that it's different in linux and in Windows and the parallel port has the direction 0x378. Can you give me some examples of applications for this?

I recommend you give parapin a try:

http://parapin.sourceforge.net/