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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!Newsmaster From: Nicolas Souchu <son@angrand.prism.uvsq.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need Info on Parallel port programming Date: 12 Jul 1996 11:32:53 +0200 Organization: Universite de Versailles/St Quentin en Yvelines - France Lines: 45 Message-ID: <s60u3vdn7ei.fsf@angrand.prism.uvsq.fr> References: <4s2vq6$6lr@news.abq.bdm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: angrand.prism.uvsq.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CC: rhughes2@bdm.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Hi, The best solution, I think is : - open /dev/io to allow out/in port reads and writes from a user process. - do your stuff in a user process with things like this: __inline__ static void port_out( char value, unsigned short port ) { __asm__ volatile ("outb %0,%1" ::"a" ((char) value), "d"((unsigned short) port)); } __inline__ static char port_in( unsigned short port ) { char _v; __asm__ volatile ("inb %1,%0" :"=a" (_v):"d"((unsigned short) port)); return _v; } You may have some info about parallel port programming at --- cut --- http://www.fapo.com/ieee1284.htm The start ftp.lexmark.com/pub/ieee Digging deeper http://www.nsc.com Make it work on your hardware http://www.smc.com Make it work on your hardware --- paste --- nicolas -- Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr Laboratoire PRiSM - Versailles, FRANCE