| New: |
| simpleio.c provides inp(), outp(), init() these functions are accessed trough |
| ctypes. |
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| Build (cygwin/mingw): run "make" the makfile should care of everything. |
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| Old python extension: |
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| This extension is needed on Windows as there is no API to |
| manipulate the parallel port. This Python extension exposes |
| "inp()" and "outp()" that can be used to manipulate the printer |
| IOs directly. It could be basicaly used to access any IO port. |
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| On Windows NT/2k/XP direct access to IOs is not possible for |
| user applications (only kernel mode drivers). Because of that |
| a kernel driver is needed. The sources to GIVEIO.SYS are in |
| the respective directory. The loaddrv sources come from the |
| archive that is mentioned in the giveio readme. |
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| If the extension detects that it is running on an NT based system |
| (NT, 2k, XP) it activates the giveio driver to gain access to the |
| IO ports. To make this work, the giveio driver must be installed. |
| this can be done with the loaddrv tool. The batchfiles |
| "install_giveio.bat" and "remove_giveio.bat" do whats needed to |
| install or uninstall. |
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| Thanks go to |
| Dale Roberts for the giveio driver and to |
| Paula Tomlinson for the loaddrv sources |
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| chris <cliechti@gmx.net> |
