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DarkBASIC Discussion / Parallel Port

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Posted: 13th Nov 2003 03:11
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Does anyone know if you can send data to the p. port? If so do you do it with a command or a dll or what? thanks

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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 17:49
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You can, but this isn't really a DarkBASIC question. But you can use DarkBASIC a bit. . You have to use HTML, JAVA or MSDOS to do this.

Oh, boy, this is going to take a LOT of explaining, but here goes. Firsly, you have to use the execute file command, something I picked up arounds here. If you want to make it look nice, you put in

sync on
sync rate 0
ccolor = RGB(0,0,0)
INK 0,ccolor
CLS
PRINT "Press any key to continue..."
WAIT KEY
PRINT "executing..."
execute file "C:\WINDOWS\DOSPRMPT.PIF","",""
END

(You can substitute the C:\WINDOWS\DOSPRMPT.PIF part for a premade program in MSDOS.) If you've never programmed in MSDOS then, a black box will come up and type in "start", then, with a little help from what comes up from the screen (if any) and some online tutorials you can get programming. If you have, then no probs.

Happy Programming.

Richard.

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