Dear Software Gurus,
Now I understand, I cannot understand everything, something has to be hidden from me before I enter my grave.
I can be happy, it is said that a fool knows more and more each day while the wisest of men knows less and less. What does this say about women??
In fact I searched for hours on the web to find some info about interfacing with the ports of a PCI Parallel Port card,.nuttin!
Finally I found one company, Lavasoft that actually had tech support for their add-on cards. What I got from was a most courteous reply, but all this guru of tech support told was that he had no experience with directly accessing these ports with software, didn't have a clue!
Really!
The XP device manager shows the port addresses, the memory addresses used, but they remain lost upon the great sea of software, esoteric ports of call, yet unexplored.
I just wonder then, these ports undoubtedly work well with printers, how in the world did the software and hardware engineers who design these cards have managed to find this information?
Still PCI portless in Seattle...