Controlling via parallel (centronic) port

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Mon Dec 1 22:22:59 UTC 2003


On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:01:45 -0800, John M McIntosh
<johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

> If you have windows, then it's more work since the primitves for  
> windows don't exist as far as I know.

You can access the parallel port using FFI from Squeak -- there are any
number of DLLs out there on the net that give access to the parallel port
from any version of windows except NT or 2000, and interfacing Squeak to an
external DLL, although painful, is relatively straight-forward...

Later,
Jon

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