[fpc-pascal]How to access a parallel port?

[Rainer Hantsch]

Hi!

I want to acces a parallel port (in Linux) from FPC 1.0.4 to control a
connected LCD display. I did such things in DOS with TP/BP by accessing the
hardware of the port directly, but this seems to be a little bit too close to
the hardware in linux. Instead, I would like to access the parallel port
through its device (i.e. /dev/lp0) and with some ioctrl() calls to access the
handshake lines, too.

Should normally be no problem, but I have no idea where to start.

Does anybody have a sample code for that? Also, a easy to understand
documentation of all parallel-port ioctrl() functions would be helpful.


mfg

  Ing. Rainer Hantsch

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