Strange

aibelectronics said:

This is quite strange, but I actually accessed my parallel port on windows xp without relying on any external dll!? It works just fine. Is there a contradiction somewhere...?
If it would be informative, I'm using Turbo C.

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aibelectronics said:

I used inportb() and outportb()... adds to the mystery eh?

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Nigel Goodwin said:

As you are obviously aware, Windows NT (which XP basically is!) won't allow direct access - HOWEVER you can get programs which install on your PC that will allow it, I'm not talking a DLL that your program uses (like WinPicProg uses), but a transparent program installed seperately.

Presumably you have such a program installed?, possibly something that required it did the installation and you don't even know?.

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Nigel Goodwin said:

Presumably you have such a program installed?, possibly something that required it did the installation and you don't even know?.

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aibelectronics said:

Nigel Goodwin said:

Presumably you have such a program installed?, possibly something that required it did the installation and you don't even know?.

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I'll like to assume that. Otherwise I could go all over the internet debunking this windows xp restriction theories!!

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