how to use bidirectionnal parallel port?

Wed May 9 03:13:47 CDT 2001

On Tue, 08 May 2001 23:25:16 +0200, Jean-Charles de Longueville
<jch at hellea.be> wrote:

>I'm trying to use an old win31 app for controling some data acquisition
>board. The board is connected to the PC trough the parallel port.
>
>I can print from Linux on this port.
>
>the parallel port is on 0x3f8 irq 7  
<snip>

Since the first PC appeared, all of them have a RS232  port at
this address. IIRC parallel ports are most often at 378 or 278.

Gerard