[PD] parallel port access?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sun Jul 20 16:55:01 CEST 2003


On Sunday, Jul 20, 2003, at 09:25 America/New_York, Marc Lavallée wrote:

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> Le 20 Juillet 2003 06:56, guenter geiger a écrit :
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>>>> How does your object differ from [lp] in zexy?
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>>> It controls each pin independantly.
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>> Could this be integrated with the already existing external ?
>> I think it would be cool to have one externals that fully
>> supports the parallel port.
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> I don't think so; my external is simply a flext wrapper for the parapin
> library: http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/parapin/
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This lib seems similar to the user-space parallel port driver that's in 
the linux kernel (ppdev).  Does it have any relation?   If this kernel 
module provides the same access, it might be the better option since 
its included with linux.  But I'm not trying to throw a wrench in your 
plans :)

.hc





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