HELP: need direct parallel port access in windows

[Darin Schneider]

I am looking for another alternative to writing/finding a vxd.386 to get
direct access to the printer/parallel port from windows 3.1. I think
what I need is some sort of mapping so that I can put data directly at
the port. If no other alternative seems vialble, and you know of some
specific vxd(s) which could be useful, please adivse.

Thanks in Advance!

Darin J. Schneider (317) 451-1282
djsc...@mail.delcoelect.com

[Mark Jeghers]

In article <3rphvo$3...@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>,
djsc...@mail.delcoelect.com says...

>
>I am looking for another alternative to writing/finding a vxd.386 to get
>direct access to the printer/parallel port from windows 3.1. I think
>what I need is some sort of mapping so that I can put data directly at
>the port. If no other alternative seems vialble, and you know of some
>specific vxd(s) which could be useful, please adivse.

Please post replys, since others of us are interested in this too!

I have faced this problem too, and simply used INP and OUTP, but
my gut tells me there must be a more elegant way. Also, I am
interested in portability into Win95 (but not NT).

This discussion comes up over and over, and in the process people
keep saying "Can someone please post some example boilerplate driver"
but one never seems to show up. I think a simple boilerplate driver
showing very crude access to IO ports (like the parallel port) would
be immensly useful to a lot of people, and it would be easily adapted
to other devices at different port addresses.

If anyone has this, we'd love to have it posted, put in an FTP archive,
or whatever.

Sigh. One can always hope.

Mark Jeghers

[John Beardmore]

In article <3rq7tp$8...@tilde.csc.ti.com>
woo...@resbld.csc.ti.com "Matthew Woolsey" writes:

>>This discussion comes up over and over, and in the process people
>>keep saying "Can someone please post some example boilerplate driver"
>>but one never seems to show up. I think a simple boilerplate driver
>>showing very crude access to IO ports (like the parallel port) would
>>be immensly useful to a lot of people, and it would be easily adapted
>>to other devices at different port addresses.
>>
>>If anyone has this, we'd love to have it posted, put in an FTP archive,
>>or whatever.
>>
>>Sigh. One can always hope.
>>
>>Mark Jeghers
>>

>Attached is a complete demo using the parallel port in windows:

Thanks ! I'll find that interesting too.

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