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In alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Lawrence Foard <entropy@vwis.com> wrote:
:>Eric Reaburn wrote:
:>> 
:>> Dear Linux hackers,
:>> how difficult (easy?) is it to get low-level program access to the serial and
:>> parallel ports
:>> on an average pentium PC running Red Hat? Ideally I would like DOS-like
:>> direct access
:>> to the hardware, but I guess that's not possible from a "normal" program in
:>> Linux.

Why do you want this? In most cases you dontttt need it. Within DOS, you
normally use direct hardware access, because DOS or BIOS functions are
not functional in all cases... Within linux you shouldntttt have such
problems, so you normally dontttt need direct hardware access, you may
simply use open/red/write/close and ioctl library functions, with these
functions you will be able to do nearly all you need (at least i hope so).
If you really need hardware access, Lwarence Foard gave you some tips
about it in a previous posting.

ciao,
	Juergen Ilse					(ilse@asys-h.de)