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AEM

Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:57 am


whoa!

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what does parallellput(8) do?


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CjGaughan

Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:31 am



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from turing help:

The parallelput procedure is used on a PC to set the values on the data pins on the parallel port. This port corresponds to the MS-DOS device "LPT1". This procedure can be used to control robots and peripherals.

for use with old fashioned pin ports (com, etc).


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the_short1

Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:21 pm



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Yea... they are going to have to add a USB output... cuz all new printers are USB....or at least the new Lexmarks..


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Dan

Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:39 pm



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ahhh, if you whont to print to a printer you should not being using parallellput, you uses file comands. see my tutorial on it for more info.