I don't know too much about perl, but I do know i/o and os stuff. The parallel port is an i/o resource and is only accesible by privilidged code (ie the operating system's device drivers). If you can use unix system calls from perl, then you can ask unix (i assume linux) to write and read the port for you. Just find out what file represents the parallel port and open a file descriptor for that file.
muad'dib "your neighborhood prophet" On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Joe Knize wrote: > Does anyone know how to program the parallel port? Specifically, I'd like > to be able to read and write TTL level signals through the various pins, > especially using Perl, but any leads on reading/writing would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > jfk > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
