[avrdude-dev] giveio

[E. Weddington]

On 21 Feb 2003 at 9:55, E. Weddington wrote:

> I'm also considering a major change to the Windows ppi. Currently I
> have to use this giveio driver in conjunction with avrdude to access
> the serial ports.
> 

Well that was quick and humbling.

Won't work. giveio is it.

Windows traps all user access to parallel port. You can open up the 
parallel port using Win32 API but you're restricted to the ECP / EPP 
protocols. If you want something different, you have to write a 
device driver, which requires yada yada yada. giveio is a device 
driver that can provide user processes with access to the parallel 
port directly.

Eric