[wellylug] Remote control via printer port

[Alex Thomson]

pmilne wrote:
> Can someone please point me in the right direction for a means of 
> scanning and driving the printer port at a 'low level' under Linux.
> 
> One reference I had for this was to use an early version of DOS and 
> QBASIC (heaven forbid!), and I could do this on an ancient 286 laptop I 
> hauled out of the closet the other day (a thick old Compaq with 
> removable keyboard).
> 
> Linux use I have in mind could either be a full modern distro, or a CD 
> with some stripped down version - command line use would be quite OK.
> 
> Thanks
> Peter
> 
> 

Hi Peter,

I think most distros come with a library for parallel port access 
already installed (libieee1284)- I don't know how savvy you are with the 
programming side of things (you did ask for a low-level!), but there are 
libieee1284-dev packages if you are comfortable with that- or if you 
prefer other languages there should be other binding packages also 
(there is definitely a phython one, and I'll be very surprised if there 
isn't a perl one too)

Cheers
Alex

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