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Re: How to Controll Parallel Port with Visual Basic?

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From: RichC
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:22
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Try winio from http://www.internals.com

"ΤΏοΏ½" <someone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm trying to find simple code to control the parallel port from
Visual
> Basic 6.  I have it coded in QuickBASIC, but this is very primitive and I
> would like to transfer it into VB.  The only problem is, I have no idea
what
> the commands are, all I can find is controlling the printer, but I just
want
> to send bits down the parallel port, not print a document.
>
>
>
> This is the code I figured out for QB (where thenumber could be from 0 to
> 256):
>
>
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> OUT &H378, thenumer
>
>
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> Does anyone know how to do this simply in VB?
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
>
> Kevin White
>
>
>
>
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