<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Oct 31, 2006 9:03 AM
<br>Subject: Re: [Wine] Parallel port access<br>To: Ian Malcolm <<a href="mailto:ian.ma1co1m@bigpond.com">ian.ma1co1m@bigpond.com</a>><br><br></span><span class="q">On 10/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Malcolm
</b> <<a href="mailto:ian.ma1co1m@bigpond.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ian.ma1co1m@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:</span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a small Visual Basic app for a prom programmer which uses the<br>parallel port (lpt1) to control the programmer. It uses a third party<br>dll (io.dll) to give vb direct access to the hardware.</blockquote></span><div>
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<br>It is highly likely that this is the problem as wine can not allow any program direct access to the hardware port.<br><br><br>John<br></div><br></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John M. Drescher