Re: Re: Is xPL the ideal work-around? Need to access the LPT port from Mister House...

[Gerry Duprey <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

>>The upside of a Java version is that it would run under Windows
98/ME as
>>well as NT/2000/XP.
>
> ...or osx, or most of the other *nix implementations

Your sounding a bit like me here :-)

> I personally would likely not use an app that performs single reads or
> writes to parallel or serial ports as most devices that I tend to care
> about implement protocols over those ports (also, other than Jack's
> device, I am unaware of other parallel port devices useful to ha).
> However, it might be a useful diagnostic utility.

I generally agree that it would be better to implement a protocol in an xPL
module for talking to devices.  However, I can see places, especially for
simple to control devices, where something that just sends a series of
bytes
to a serial or parallel port might be OK.  In a worst case situation, it
might allow someone to control something via xPL that they otherwise they
could not (perhaps not being in the position to be able to write a module).

I could also see it being useful for testing new hardware projects and such
during the development process (I know I would probably have been able to
use it

Gerry
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Gerry Duprey
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