Re: low level hardware access

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From: James Youngman
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:00

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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Reaburn <ericreaburn@planet.earth.cyberdude.com> writes:

  Eric> Dear Linux hackers, how difficult (easy?) is it to get
  Eric> low-level program access to the serial and parallel ports on
  Eric> an average pentium PC running Red Hat? Ideally I would like
  Eric> DOS-like direct access to the hardware, but I guess that's not
  Eric> possible from a "normal" program in Linux.

Read the IO-Port-Programming mini-HOWTO.

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Date: 1998/04/20
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