Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing, & Using the PC's Parallel Printer Port | 
 enlarge | Author: Jan Axelson
Publisher: Lakeview Research
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 457358
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dis
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 343
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0965081915
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.616
EAN: 9780965081917
ASIN: 0965081915
Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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Product Description
This detailed guide for programmers, developers, and computer enthusiasts shows how to get the most from parallel port in any application or project. The Visual-Basic code and circuit designs include examples that use the new enhanced (EPP) and expanded (EPC) modes.
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 too outdated March 28, 2008
this book is too outdated because the parallel drivers' code is written in VB6. I could never find these VB6 function in MS documentation.
oh, please, public a newer edition.
thanks
ParalellPortComplete December 30, 2007
The packets was very, very bad!
I belive I never gon to order from Amazon again!
The book it self, is what I order, but the shipment...
I see hove much customers means to you with that shipment.
 Great December 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC'S Parallel Printer Port
This is great book in order to program the parallel port
 Outdated for software programmers November 7, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The software is useless for todays Microsoft Operating systems.
The programs are useless on any current NT system. By NT,
I mean NT3.1 and higher (XP,2000,2003,Vista).
I am only giving
it two stars because there is good hardware information.
Thats it. The technical community pretty much abandoned
Parallel ports for USB.
The fact is, all local port communication is done with three
Windows API(s). These APIs are CreateFile, ReadFile, and WriteFile.
Also, to get the file name, you need SetupDi utilities
from SetupApi.h.
There is nothing in the book about this. If anybody is interested,
email me at k9gatton@yahoo.com. I will show you how to communicate
with a bi-directional device. It is a little tricky with LPT, but
it is not impossible. This is because the spooler blocks LPT ports
with a secure named pipe.
The Title says it All June 7, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I cannot recommend this book highly enough for the home gageteer. The author Jan Axelson is a rare example of someone that knows her stuff, explains it well to novices, and provides excellent generic examples of code. The examples provided cover situations such as; exporting data bits out thru the parallel port, reading info from the data port, searching for data ports and addresses, and using the parallel port to communicate pc to pc. Seldom do you find a "can-do" person that provides excellent instruction at a beginner's level. The fascination of this book is that as home computers become more powerful, they are still limited in their effect on the external environment, except through dedicated peripherals, such as printers, scanners, etc. With this book, a pc port relay kit (purchased off the internet), and maybe a semester of Visual Basic instruction and " you da man ". Once you can open and close a relay connected to your parallel port from a visual basic program you are off and running. Most electrical devices in you home become fair game. This book needs an update, except for a Tour-de Force in the beginning chapters of code segments in Pascal, Assembler And Quick-Basic, the remainder of the book is in Visual basic 4.0. This reader had no problem importing the examples provided on the enclosed floppy disk into Visual Basic 5.0 . This author has also written a sister book "The Complete Serial Port ", and it is on my "must read " list.
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