Please provide me with a simple "how-to-use" for the inpout32 dll. I'm using Turbo C and I want to gain access to the parallel port in windows xp. Are there other ways for doing this without resorting to the dll? Thanks!

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You can download the port driver from my website below, that comes with C examples.

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if it is turboc for dos. then it will not do

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it would not work for turbo c dos? what then is the way out?

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In DOS there are NO restrictions to port access, but DOS isn't supported under XP (just a fairly crude emulation) - just boot up in DOS, off a floppy if required!.

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dos cannot even access the dll and xp won't allow the dos box to have direct h/w access . you WILL need to use windows developer tools VB/VC/Delphi?Borland C for windows.... to access the dll and use the exposed methods.

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