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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: C's outp() to Visual Basic
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 21:30:50 GMT
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- In article <4jkmr4$5kh@news.fsu.edu> obrien@cs.fsu.edu "Brian" writes:
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- > I am porting a program from C to VB; the heart of the program involves
- > reading/writing to a board with inp() and outp(). Does anyone have any ideas on > doing this?
- >
- > I have VB4 and VC++ v4. I'd prefer using a straightforwad VB approach rather
- > than writing a .dll or .ocx. Thanks in advance!
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- I am pretty sure that VB can't do that. VB is like standard C -- you can't
- do anything really fancy without using external code. (eg curses) In C this
- is a good thing (portable). in VB it's a limitation (VB ain't portable anyway).
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- .splitbung
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