Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

[Michael ODonnell]

I 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?

...and got these responses:

   http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html

      Sounded very appealing to me (partly because it'd serve as
      another excuse to learn more Python) but the blurb on that
      WWW page makes reference to some "archive" that apparently
      doesn't exist.

   http://centerclick.org/temp/lcd.tgz

      Some home-grown tools written by Dave Johnson.  The entire
      collection compiled easily and the lcdraw tool worked well
      enough for my purposes - I didn't try any of the others.

   http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/portcontrol/portcontrol.c

      I did not try this as the source codes indicate that it
      invokes ioperm() and then engages in direct manipulation of
      some hardcoded I/O ports from user space, something I was
      avoiding as not flexible enough for my purposes.

   http://parashell.sourceforge.net/

      I did not get around to trying this.

My thanks to all.