Take a look at issue 74 (September 1996) of Circuit Cellar Ink.  There is
an article about writing a VxD for Windows 95 that allows access to the
printer port. Although VxD's don't currently work in NT, Microsoft may put
support in for them soon.

MD


On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Karen L. Black wrote:

> I have a 16C84 that is to be programmed in-circuit as part of our customers'
> system configuration.  Ideally, this would run under Windows NT.  However,
> it appears that the parallel-port programming model (as seen in Messrs.
> Tait and Goodwin, and the Microchip ECH) wants direct port-level communication
> with the parallel port, and from what little I know of NT, this is not
> allowed.
>
> Has anyone else tried to integrate a parallel-port programmer under NT?
> Can someone perhaps point me to "model" printer driver code, so I can figure
> out how to include what I need?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen Black
> Blodgett, OR
>