"Kevin B. Kent" wrote:
>
> mjcibulk@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > In article <38C99D58.3CA2B2DF@austin.rr.com>,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to accomplish the same parallel port communication. I tried
> > to use the serial I/O vi's but it keeps giving me an error message if I
> > try to use anything but the COM ports. I tried to read from serial with
> > the port=10(should be LPT1), I received the same error on two different
> > computers. It doesn't seem to be able to find LPT1.
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> > Before you buy.
>
> I believe that you must have an entry in the labview.ini file
> that states what ports you are using. (Win 9x and NT)
> For the parallel port you should have an entry called
> labv
iew.serialDevices="com1; com2; ..... \\.\com10"
>
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> Kevin Kent
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BTW,
Does anybody managed to control Parallel port vith VISA. Is it even
possible and where is an example? ASRL10::INSTR is very good, but how to
control communication?
Thanks,
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Sergey Krasnishov
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Moscow, Russia
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