Re: [PARPORT] [Q] Parport for Win32

From: Matthew Duggan (stauff@guarana.org)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 01:11:31 EST

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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:27:36AM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>
> > Did anybody do some effort to port PARPORT to win32?
>
> You can use libieee1284 on Cygwin.
>
> Tim.
> */
>

... but it's really slow because each nibble read or written is multiple syscalls.

If anyone wants to port parport then I'd be very happy, because the built-in
Windows driver is practically useless, despite claiming to support ECP.

- Matthew

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