Parallel Port Access

[Uwe Bonnes]

David Charlton <davchar at optushome.com.au> wrote:
: Hi,
: Is it possible for wine to directly access the parallel port for 
: printing purposes, rather than going throught the linux spool?  If so, how?

You can allow Wine to access hardware ports , like in ~/.win/config:

[ports]
"read" = "0x378-0x37f"
"write" = "0x378-0x37f"

You must run wine as root so that wine can actually access the ports.

I once implemented a user level ports access schem with parports
ppdev. Should sometimes revive this, as ppdev is in 2.4. However ther are
few usefull/usable programs that need port access, as mostly only win31 code
uses in and out  commands outside of unsupported Ring 0 code.

Bye

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