Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:44:49 -0800 From: Joe Bo <ibjoe@home.com> To: Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parallel Port Control Message-ID: <2.2.32.19991228174449.0099aa80@netmail.home.com>
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Thanks! OK, so all I have to do is write a C program using ioctl to control the printer port.. guess I can handle that.. Thanks again! Joe Bo At 04:42 PM 12/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 11:32:49AM -0900, Robert Norgard wrote: >> Would anyone have suggestions on where to find information on >> taking control of the parallel port to manipulate the i/o >> lines directly? I need to control some external hardware in >> real time. The i/o lines would need to be strobed about 1500 >> times/sec. Any problem with this rate? >> >> Any suggestions? > > /usr/share/examples/ppi, for the first. > > That rate is probably not a problem, depending on what you do >in between. The times I've run PLIP were much faster than that. > > > > >-- >Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil >dann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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