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3 total messages Started by Maurice Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:20

#653

Author: Maurice
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:20

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Hello:

I like to command some external hardware using parallel port, is here any 
functions to do that? the old "inportb" and "outportb" are not supported 
anymore.

Thanks
Maurice

Re: using parallel port

#656

Author: Clayton Arends
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:33

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"Maurice" <morisaab@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
news:47b578f5@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I like to command some external hardware using parallel port, is here any 
> functions to do that?

In the Win32 world you use CreateFile(), OpenFile(), ReadFile(), 
WriteFile(), etc to communicate with many types of resources including 
parallel and serial ports.  Use Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) to 
search previous newsgroup postings on this topic as it has been answered 
many times before.

Good luck,
Clayton

Re: using parallel port

#697

Author: Jim Dodd
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:59

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Maurice wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I like to command some external hardware using parallel port, is here any 
> functions to do that? the old "inportb" and "outportb" are not supported 
> anymore.
> 
> Thanks
> Maurice
> 
> 

You might try TVicLPT. I've used it and it works as a component with
Builder. Here is a link:

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/dev/lpt/index.shtm

It is relatively inexpensive and there is a free version to try. You can 
access (read and write) individual pins of the parallel port or read and 
write bytes.

Regards,
Jim Dodd
Onset Computer Corp.

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