On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:07:38AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> Is there a high-level parallel port driver that allows 'vanila' access
> to a parallel port from a user-mode program? If so, what are the ioctls
> available? I need to be able to test if data is available and/or test
> the state of the handshake lines. Or do I need to write a kernel module
> (driver)?
Take a look at libieee1284: http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/. It
is a nicer interface to the kernel ppdev driver, which also has some
fall-back I/O routines if ppdev isn't available. It is meant to be
cross-platform-capable, and for example I don't think it would take
too much effort to get it going on *BSD.
For Linux, ppdev is available in the 2.4.x kernel series.
Tim.
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