Martin Gregorie wrote: > You are doing something else: bypassing the Linux drivers by attempting > to talk direct to the hardware. While this may be acceptable with older > Windows versions its not a good idea with Linux. What is a good idea to solve the problem in Linux? At this time i have no idea how the parport is implemented in the Linux-Kernel. But i am optimistic that the kernel will not allow something that is not good for him. [Wink] Martin Gregorie wrote: > It shouldn't matter because AFAIK Wine supports Windows sockets for all > Windows emulations. Sockets is a reliable way of communicating between > Windows programs and Linux native programs. Of course this is a universal solution to cover all the problems. But a separate Linux-daemon is needed and it would be better if we could avoid this, because someone must write him in C. But i will search if maybe someone already has written one. Karsten
