Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 18:53:00 EDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:07 -0400
> "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to
>> wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port?
>> I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like
>> parport_pc) via ioctls rather than poking around directly in I/O
>> or memory space at hardcoded addresses as I'd hope it'd be flexible
>> enough to work with either an integral "legacy" device or an add-in
>> device connected via PCI, USB, etc.
> One possibility might be pyparallel. (I haven't used it, but I have
> used its sibling pyserial and found it very useful, and very usable.)

  I have used http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/portcontrol/portcontrol.c
when I was doing some playing, and wanted to toggle some of them.

-- 
-- Thomas


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