Writing to the parallel port (Mem 0x378) when runnning WinXP or Mandrake 9.2

[Todd Gardner]

Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message news:<Xns94481CC1B3CFcliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.4>...
> Gandalf <gandalf at geochemsource.com> wrote in 
> news:mailman.100.1070529056.16879.python-list at python.org:
> 
> > Use PySerial
> > 
> > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/
> 
> thanks for recomending it :-) as a little clarification:
> the link to pyparallel is here:
> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html
> 
> (its only a small note on the mainpage)
> 
> currently i have only py2.2 versions available for download, but i can 
> easily build the 2.3 version upon request, or you can build it on your own 
> with mingw32 or cygwin installed: python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 
> install
> 
> you will need giveio.sys, also available in the downloads section, that 
> allows programs to access the io ports on Win NT/2k/XP
> 
> chris
>
I think all I have to do is figure out how to use the outp(...)
command.  Pardon my ignorance here but how do I figure out the syntax
of this command?

This is my first project in python and it seems a bit daunting.  I am
trying to communicate to a custom device via the parallel port.  At
this point I only want to write data to the data port.  In my case the
memory address is x378.

I installed: Python 2.2, giveio_setup.exe and
pyparallel-0.1.win32-py2.2.exe.  I was running Python2.3 but I don't
think that it will matter for this newbie project.

Many thanks for all of your pointers!

Todd
> 
> >   Laci
> > 
> > Todd Gardner wrote:
> > 
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------
> >>I would appreciate any ideas how to write to the parallel port (Mem
> >>0x378) when runnning WinXP or Mandrake 9.2.
> >>
> >>In C and LabVIEW I use the OutP command to write to directly to a
> >>memory address.
> >>
> >>Thank you
> >>--
> >>Todd
> >>piir at earthlink.net
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------