> >QBASIC and the general idea is to read and write directly to/from the
> >parallel port adresses. eg

> which you wish to 'talk'. but, imho you'd be much better off using one 
> of the existing drivers to do all the grunt work for you.

How would one go about that? Just read/write to /dev/lp0? Does this
allow fine-control of the parallel port control lines (sometimes these
are heavily used by hardware attachments to the port)?

Volker

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