i just read in a few articles that we need some kind of special drivers for parallel port to access it through c as in win xp and 7 we cannot access them directly ! so can you help me in that !????
harshi414 0 Newbie Poster
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
The drivers already exist, you don't have to write them. Read this article and follow the links to examples in codeproject.com
harshi414 commented: Thanx for this ! im working over it ! +0
harshi414 0 Newbie Poster
These drivers are something like not making me use C atol !! i also want to control the parallel port from C !
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
You can't access the port directly, MS-Windows won't let you. Download this library which will let you access the ports.
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