Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> writes:

> Samir Saidani wrote on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:07:13 +0100
>> Check the section SqueakBot-Hardware
>> (http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakBot as mentionned by Serge) which
>> implements the parallel port access under linux and windows
>> (ParallelPortUnix and ParallelPortWin). We should extract this part of
>> squeakbot and make a release of it since it would be of interest for
>> general use, so if you have some times, feel free to build a parallel
>> port squeakmap package with all these materials !
>
> This is all included in the image/changes I had downloaded from the page
> Serge indicated.

Ok but the squeaksource one is probably the latest up-to-date code,
don't know about the image you downloaded...


>> You will also need the tarball containing the C code (in fact, it
>> should be translated in a squeaky fashion as a ParallelPortPlugin
>> class which would avoid to distribute the tarball).
>
> I found it attached to an email to this list from April 15 of 2005.
> After getting the needed uncompression tool (Gentoo has a wider
> selection of tools than RiscOS ;-) and compiling it, copying the .so
> file to where the squeak binary is I still get the same result. Given
> that this is via FFI shouldn't the unmodified VM be able to load this?

Same comment, things has maybe changed since that date, I've sent you
the last up-to-date code.

Cheers,
Samir