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From: gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)
Subject: Re: Parallel port
Date: 2000/03/06
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In article <8a0gkf$pv8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison wrote:

>>
>> My program run on Windows.
>
>Windows what?
>
>If you are talking 9x or NT, you can't do that. Those OS's don't allow
>direct access to the hardware. You have to do it using Win32 calls.

I would recommend using system calls too, since it won't work on 
NT and Win2000 otherwise, but I think you are wrong when saying that
direct hardware is disallowed on Win9x.

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