begin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > <background_information> > Last night I was looking for a manual for my Radio Shack 15-1994 Universal > Remote. I found one, but also found something else. This thing has a 'JP1 > interface' for programming. Apparently someone figured out how to talk to the > thing and hook it up to a PC. I just spent $6 at Radio Shack and spent half > an hour building the parralel inteface. I fired up VMware, created a virtual > LPT1 that talks to the remote using /dev/parport0 and IT WORKS! > </background_information> that's very impressive. note that one of the selling points of vmware is that it handles calls to serial and || port. it also has limited usb too.
> Anyway, can Wine intercept access to the printer port and support it as > VMware does? wine boasts parallel port access too. transgaming (winex) has it turned off by default for some reason. if you use winex, you'll have to download the cvs version and compile it yourself. at least, that's what was explained to me (i had posted a question of printer access under winex). pete -- GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
