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    Determining LPT address

    Thanks for the reply.. Sorry for the delay. I abandoned the idea of searching for the available ports. Just allow the user to set an address - this can be dangerous but for now I will leave it in - just for development. I am using inpout32.dll and it works quite well . Thanks Alvin
  2. alvinleer

    Determining LPT address

    Hello, I am trying to determine the address of the parallel ports on a PC. The base address is $408, this should hold 888 (lpt1 $378). I have this code segement but I get an access violation. I am not sure if Windows XP is preventing me from reading the data from this memory location. If...

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