Re: use of serial and parrallel port using C

From: Flash Gordon (spam_at_flash-gordon.me.uk)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:35:50 +0100

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:51:06 +0100
"The Man With The Harmonica" <corlioni1976REMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> "Mark A. Odell" <odellmark@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns95496D1A74290CopyrightMarkOdell@130.133.1.4...
> > "The Man With The Harmonica" <corlioni1976REMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
> > in news:cfvpon$dvf$1@rdel.co.uk:
> >
> > > What kind of commands can I use to control the serial and parallel
> > > port of my pc.
> >
> > None. ISO C doesn't have any commands nor does it know anything
> > about serial or parrallel ports. You'll need to ask this in a
> > newsgroup that programs for the platform you are using, e.g. DOS,
> > Linux, Win32, etc.
>
> I'm using an old Toshiba laptop with win95. I want to use the
> parallel port to control some circuits and to read the state of some
> control lines. Basically its going to be controlling a four wheeled
> buggy and I want to do this using C and through the parallel port.

So go and ask on a a group for you platform as Mark suggested. Standard
C does not provide you with any way to to what you want and this group
talks about standard C. 

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Flash Gordon
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