Re: how to communicate with LPT? is this posible?

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 22:20 +0100, ALLs soft wrote:
> i meen LPT and not LTP.
> how to read a word from parallel port.
> more on http://www.1osb.ims.hr/skola/lpt/LPT-input.html, but not english.
> i now work this with DLportIO but it work only on windows.
> i need read what is on 889 adress (if in bios).
>
> somebody can help?

On Linux (and other Unix-like systems), devices are made
available as "special files", and usually have entries
created under /dev

You probably want to read /dev/lp0

Liam

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