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From: gisle@gribb.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)
Subject: Re: Parallel port
Date: 2000/03/08
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In article <QMTw4.1177$xx6.8182878@nnrp3.proxad.net>, Philippe Bourzeix wrote:
>Well it seems that it's not possible on Windows Nt -95-98...
>So is it possible on linux ?
>Someone got an idea ?

On Linux you got access to the parallel port through the device
drivers. This is /dev/lpx or /dev/parportx, where x is the numbers
0-3. You open the device as a file, and read and writes 

If you of some strange reason want to access the hardware direcly,
you can use the ioperm() call as root, or write your own kernel
module, but that is not necesary.

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