RE: [QUESTION] Howto access parallel port

2007-03-22 Thread Kutschera Peter
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Howto access parallel port Peter, Thank you for the pointer to RXTX. I have made progress but am still a newbie. I have successfully built and run nulltest.java, which sends a string to /dev/ttyS0 and simutaneously reads from /dev/ttyS0. With a short from TX t

Re: [QUESTION] Howto access parallel port

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Meier
Peter, Thank you for the pointer to RXTX. I have made progress but am still a newbie. I have successfully built and run nulltest.java, which sends a string to /dev/ttyS0 and simutaneously reads from /dev/ttyS0. With a short from TX to RX, it reads the same string written, "Hello, world". My

RE: [QUESTION] Howto access parallel port

2007-03-16 Thread Kutschera Peter
Hello! (Repost just in the case you have problems with my signature. Might be a problem created by the mailing list.) Accessing the ports is easy. I did it with serial ports (build in and usb) under Linux and Windows. See the following links about how to du it. http://www.rxtx.org/ RXTX : seria

RE: [QUESTION] Howto access parallel port

2007-03-16 Thread Kutschera Peter
Hello! Accessing the ports is easy. I did it with serial ports (build in and usb) under Linux and Windows. See the following links about how to du it. http://www.rxtx.org/ RXTX : serial and parallel I/O libraries supporting Sun's CommAPI http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Main Page