Sending one byte to the parallel port

[Kronos]

Want something reeeeeaaaaaally simple ?

Create a file only containing 1 byte (you may need a hex-editor to manipulate that byte), and then type:

copy myfile to par:

*clack* *clack*  :-D

Or if in C (untested but should work, and if with every compiler):

char c = 0xf3;
FILE *file;

file = fopen("PAR:","w");
putc(file,c);
fclose(file);

Done from memory, typos or under international copyright

[Kronos]

You'll need to atleast include stdio.h.

GCC is available for Amiga, you may need to google a bit.

[Kronos]

Oh, and about that other idea:

"echo "blabla" >par:" would also work (you may need to replace "blabla" with some escape-sequence in order to send unprintable bit-combination (and no I don't know the next best thing about escape-sequences).

[Kronos]

CRTL-C should do the trick.

You may also try a bigger file, if it just switches once the HW is missing some sort of handshake, if it goes to the end it's copy which doesn't return cleanly.

In that case you could try other commands (echo,type etc) which can also be used to send files to par:

BUT in I personaly send several times files to ser: that way without copy getting blocked (unless the receiving computer wasn't listening, in which case CTRL-C worked just fine).

[Kronos]

@motorollin
Have yout tried  this  ?


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