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- From: Ari Lukumies <aril@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: NT talking to hardware?
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:17 +0200
- Organization: Carelcomp Forest
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- bblack@micron.net wrote:
- >
- > Hello,
- > I need some help taking to an 8 bit driver card. The card was design to drive
- > a relay matrix for some testing at work. We had it running fine on window 3.1 and it
- > was decided that we should upgrade to a 32 bit operating system (NT) to increase our
- > speed for real time testing. I tried to recompile the DLL that we use to talk to the
- > driver card to 32 bit, but the compiler did not like the outp() function I was using to
- > write to data to the card. I am very new to C++ programming and this problem was
- > like running into a wall. I found out that outp() is a 16 bit function and is not portable
- > to NT. Does anyone know how I go about taking to hardware in a Windows NT
- > environment? Any help will be appreciated.
- >
- >
- > "There is nothing so noble as learning a skill and putting it to use."
- >
- > bblack@micron.net
-
- Sure: you'll have to write a device driver for your card. It may take some effort, though...
- :) Ontain the WinNT DDK for further details.
-
- Later,
- AriL
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