raw parallel port access

[Primorec]

I am trying to achieve the same goal as Chris to no avail. My Windows
program uses INPOUT32.DLL for talking to the parallel port.  Does this
dll belongs to "some unknown VXD" ?

Regards

Igor

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:49:30 +0200, Uwe Bonnes
<bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> >>>>> "BRC" == BRC  <f4tq at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>     BRC> After quite a few days of perusing wine doc/source/config/mailing
>     BRC> lists, I have found very scant references to accessing the raw
>     BRC> parallel ports using wine.
> 
> How does your windows program try to access the port?
> 
> Probably by callig DeviceIOControl() on some unknown VXD. As has been told
> several times in the last days, wine is for running windows user programs,
> not for running windows kernel drivers. If you know what the VXD does and
> what interfaces it exposes, you can try to recreate/reimplement that VXD
> with Linux.
> 
> If your program is an old Win31 program, accessing the port directly, wine
> captures these accesses and either translates them in an hopefully
> acceptable way.
> 
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