On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:22:44AM -0500, Joseph Smith wrote: > > Hello, > For the Paraflasher project I would like to setup a function to > automatically detect the presence of the PC's parallel ports and their base > addresses. This way it doesn't need to be hard-coded into the program. I > was thinking of using /proc/ioports to do this but I am not really sure how > to do this in C. Here is what I am thinking: > > 1. First use grep -c paraport /proc/ioports to check if we have multiple > parallel ports and maybe setup loop for it. > 2. Then grep paraport /proc/ioports again to get the base address of each > parallel port detected. This is where I am stuck. I just need to turn the > first 4 characters (base address) into a variable. Can anyone help???
Would an environment variable be ok? Sed/awk should be able to do that for you. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
