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Re: Parallel port direct IO

From: Nick Kartsioukas <>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:37:12 -0700

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:58:51PM -0400, Yohan Baillot wrote:
> Dear wearharders,
> 
> I would like to use the parallel port on my wearable to read some inputs
> from a
> pinch glove. I figure that to do so I have to read/write the register 0x378
> and 0x379
> on my PC and do some little circuitry so that there are the appropriate
> voltages and
> resitors needed to not blow up the parallel port chip. Unfortunatelly I am
> using NT
> and I seem to have problem with that. The _inp and _outp functions are not
> working
> (exception is produced when using them). Other sample code I have found use
> input and output write/read function that are not found on NT (I cannot even
> compile). Does anybody tried to do what I am doing and would know what are
> the
> right functions and setting I should use under NT?

If I remember right, NT will specifically not let any applications directly
touch your PC hardware.

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Nick Kartsioukas 	|  KF6UZB
	|  NK2694

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