low level hardware access

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From: Eric Reaburn
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:00

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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. 

Thanks.
Eric.
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From: "Eric Reaburn" <ericreaburn@planet.earth.cyberdude.com>
Subject: low level hardware access
Date: 1998/04/20
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