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to: Peyton Bay
from: Andrew Grillet
date: 1995-12-09 11:29:48
subject: Re: parallel port

-=> On 04 Dec 95  16:55:40 Peyton Bay said to All <=-

 PB> Can I reference the parallel port (both read and write) from a PM
 PB> application without having to write a device driver?

Yes - see documentation in the DDK on using ring2 DLLs in place of
device drivers. (Or Mastrianni's book - chapter on 'how not to write a DD').

Andrew


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