Re: low level hardware access

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From: Terry Dawson
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:00

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In article <tglhpegaipbcsjonkm.pminews@news.darkstar.com.au>,
	"Eric Reaburn" <ericreaburn@planet.earth.cyberdude.com> writes:
> 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. 

Yes, it is possible.

Try:

The I/O Port Programming mini-HOWTO available at:

http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IO-Port-Programming.html

regards
Terry

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Date: 1998/04/22
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