[wellylug] Remote control via printer port

[Grant McLean]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:27 +1300, 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.

There is a Perl modules foe doing that sort of thing:

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Device-ParallelPort-drv-linux/

I've never used it, but the module author did a very entertaining talk
at OSDC in Melbourne about the various things he's done with it.

Cheers
Grant