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Is there a hardware &nbsp;workaround, like connecting one of the parallel port pins to another ( similar to 3 pin serial connections - elimination of control flow ).<br />
Sorry,<br />
not realy an inteligent question, but i havne't got the time to explore this issue deeply.<br />

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Is there a hardware  workaround, like connecting one of the parallel port pins to another ( similar to 3 pin serial connections - elimination of control flow ).
Sorry,
not realy an inteligent question, but i havne't got the time to explore this issue deeply.


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I want to to hold a value on the parallel port. In DOS, i just had to &quot;outport&quot; to the lpt address, while in Win32 ( Nt workstation )it is a bit more complecated i guess.<br />
So far i was abble to open the file \.\\lpt for reading and writing ( CreateFile ), but wheneven i try to write, WriteFile failes ( although GetLastError claims that the operation completed successfuly ) and nothing apears on the parralel port. &nbsp;<br />
Does anybody know how to configure the parallel port ( maybe its a control flow issue? ) - is it done in the same bizzar way like the serial port? &nbsp;How can i realy complete this simple and rather stupid operation successfuly?
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I want to to hold a value on the parallel port. In DOS, i just had to "outport" to the lpt address, while in Win32 ( Nt workstation )it is a bit more complecated i guess.
So far i was abble to open the file \.\\lpt for reading and writing ( CreateFile ), but wheneven i try to write, WriteFile failes ( although GetLastError claims that the operation completed successfuly ) and nothing apears on the parralel port.  
Does anybody know how to configure the parallel port ( maybe its a control flow issue? ) - is it done in the same bizzar way like the serial port?  How can i realy complete this simple and rather stupid operation successfuly?

Writing to the parallel port on Win32

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