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- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: The ST parallel (printer) port
- Keywords: printer parallel input output ports
- Message-ID: <17284.2ab28810@bclcl1.im.battelle.org>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 05:15:12 GMT
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- In Abacus's _Atari_ST_Internals_, it is mentioned that the ST can both
- Message-ID: <BuGEEz.F0@world.std.com>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 07:06:34 GMT
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- send and receive data through the parallel port. Can anyone confirm that
- the parallel port can be used as input? Someone once told me that the
- PC's parallel port can do both input and output (which I know is true) but
- the ST can't... And Abacus has been known to stretch the truth
- occasionally. thoughts?
-
- (I'm building an EPROM programmer that will be controlled by an ST
- via the parallel port, and a "read" option would be nice...)
-
- Also, what would I use to read the printer port? An example in C would
- be greatly appreciated.
-
- Michael Moncur
- mgm@world.std.com (preferred)
- sysop@only_bbs.via.mind.org (alternate)
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