NAME
Device::ParallelPort::drv::linux - Standard linux hardware io access
DESCRIPTION
This is a basic driver that access the parallel port directly via standard io. This of course means that this script must be run as root (or setuid and all that involves).
CAPABILITIES
Operating System
Linux
Special Requirements
You must be root to run this code.
HOW IT WORKS
This code uses a c portion that compiles in a assembler macro to read and write (via the kernel) to the address directly.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002,2004 Scott Penrose. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Scott Penrose scottp@dd.com.au, http://linux.dd.com.au/