From: "jgc9" <jgc9 AT dingoblue DOT net DOT au>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and USB port
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:24:11 +1000
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"Nicholas D" <noads64 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
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>An alternative to the above would be to port the linux drivers.
>USB controller registers are standardized for the most part.

>You would be looking at a significant amount of work, though -
>on the order of man-months.

Not an option at this stage.

>What do you want to be able to do?

Write Windows independent software to turn switches on/off
and read analog and digital inputs the way I did with my
C64, Amiga and DOS based PC.

The DJGPP software does work with the parallel port so I
will have to come up with a hardware solution using the
parallel port as a conduit.

JohnC