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"Mr CW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Thank you for the pointers. It sounds like reading data back from the
: parallel port is not a common thing to do, although I thought parallel port
: projects might have done this. Then I realized that most PIC programmers,
: parallel port displays, etc. usually only receive data, not send it back to
: the computer...
:
: I'm still looking into this, so any other suggestions are very welcome.
I've used parallel port connections in a few different products.
Usually, it is boring DIO stuff. Not worth mentioning here, and we
use ppi. However, sometimes we need data. For that we write a
driver. We connect the ACK line up as a 'data valid' line and then
read the data and/or control pins when it strobes inside the ISR. We
use another line to 'ack' the data (which is backwards from how a
printer works).
Warner
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