[Wine] Accessing the parallel port

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Peeyush" == Peeyush Prasad <peeyush at rri.res.in> writes:

    Peeyush> hi list, I have a winXP program that uses the PC parallel
    Peeyush> port.I have created the links in .wine/dosdevices/ lrwxrwxrwx 1
    Peeyush> peeyush peeyush 10 2006-03-03 22:48 com1 -> /dev/ttyS0
    Peeyush> lrwxrwxrwx 1 peeyush peeyush 8 2006-03-03 22:48 lpt1 ->
    Peeyush> /dev/lp0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 peeyush peeyush 1 2006-03-03 22:52 d: ->
    Peeyush> / lrwxrwxrwx 1 peeyush peeyush 10 2006-03-03 22:52 c: ->
    Peeyush> ../drive_c

    Peeyush>  Now the application ships with its own parallel port driver
    Peeyush> called umsepp.sys. This also has an installer umsepp.exe.So I
    Peeyush> installed the driver as indicated by them, and got the message
    Peeyush> that the driver was properly loaded and to 'reboot' my machine,
    Peeyush> which I did...

    Peeyush> on running the parallel port specific part of my app, I get a
    Peeyush> dialog box stating: Information:
    Peeyush> epp_readIGB():DeviceIoControl() failed: file not found

    Peeyush> also, I get the following messages on my terminal:

The programm uses it's own or some other genuine driver. Without heavy
reverse engineering you don't have any chance to get things working.

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