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- From: bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help !! Need a routine to program the par. poort
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 08:41 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- Message-ID: <17MAR199608415309@erich.triumf.ca>
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- In article <DoEx7p.o0@inter.NL.net>, Alex Flora <Rene.Vermeulen@cc.ccn.nl> writes...
- >Is there anyone outthere who has experience with programming the Parrallel
- >poort from a PC in Plain C language.
- >
- >The problem i have , is that if i sent a binary code to the poort, the poort
- >waits for a reply from the printer (or something like that).
- >
- >This is very inconvenient, because i just want to sent binarie data without checking
- >enything.
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- (Assuming this refers to the PC parallel printer port)
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- You should be able to write directly to the port, without worrying about
- handshaking, using outportb() (for Borland compilers, something similar for
- Microsoft).
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- Have a look at http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg for some PC parallel port FAQs.
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