Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] parallel port

You can actually just set the compatibility mode (under properties) to either win95 or 98 and windows will allow that program to access the parallel port. I've done several dos based c programs for the parallel port and that's all I have to do to get them to run under XP.

Paul Davis

On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:27:07 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> Trend wrote:
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> As others have said - you need an interface library. Another one is
> Direct-IO - www.direct-io.com - Which will allow a lot of old
> software that talks directly to the ports to work on NT, W2k and
> XP, without having to modify the old programs!
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