oops! These messages are supposed to go to the individual and not to the list (and normally they do). Something went wrong on this one and I will have to investigate to figure out what it was. My apologies to Mr. Sassahara for any public embarrassment although non was intended. My apologies to the list for wasting bandwidth and time. The content of the message does, however, remains apropos. --- James Newton (PICList Admin #3) mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com or .org -----Original Message----- From: Quitt, Walter [mailto:wquitt@microjoin.com] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 11:37 To: 'jamesnewton@PICLIST.COM' Subject: RE: Parallel Port access via C. Importance: Low Did the whole PICLIST need to see your post???????? "Think about it" -W :-) :-) -----Original Message----- From: James Newton [mailto:jamesnewton@PICLIST.COM] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 11:29 AM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Parallel Port access via C. Just a quick note: the below listed post, which you sent to the PICLIST, has nothing to do with PICs and [OT] was not in the subject line. The rest of this message is long winded B.S. Feel free to ignore it: Please understand, I really don't want to offend you or in any way discourage you from posting your valuable information (or funny remarks ) to the PICLIST. I'm just pointing out that people who only want to read engineering post about the PIC would not be able to filter out your post by setting up their email program to delete [OT] subjects. If you remember to add [OT], you can help retain people (resources) on the list who don't have time or bandwidth to follow [OT]'s You can post just about anything to the PIC list. Just mark the tread [OT] and that's enough for us. If list members don't like it... they can filter it.... As I have advised other before, if a list member doesn't like something said in a post they can send the "offenders" a private email asking them to mark [OT]s. If they get buried, maybe they will. ..or maybe they will drop off the list and then part of the SIGNAL will be gone forever rather than just buried in the noise. I don't want to loose your signal and I won't keep sending you this "reminder" email if you reply and tell me to stop. My goal is to keep people (like Tjaart, Scott Dattalo, and others and YOU) from leaving the list rather than have their valuable time wasted by a rash of off topic posts that are not marked [OT]. Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you have other questions about how to get the most out of the PICList, please see the PICList FAQ at: http://www.piclist.com James Newton, PICList Admin #3 mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com phone:1-619-652-0593 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Marcos Sassahara Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 10:21 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Parallel Port access via C. Hi All, Sorry. I know this is not a PIC subject but I'm sure that posting this message here, somebody will be able to help me. I was trying to write a very simple C program to set a byte in the LPT1 parallel port. The code was something like: #include void main(void) { outportb(0x378,0xFF); /* output of 0xFF on LPT1 */ } I am using the Borland C 5.0 compiler, so with bcc prog.c, I could get the prog.exe file that really worked well. The problem is that I want to work with the 32 bit compiler type and with bcc32 prog.c, instead of the prog.exe file I just got an error message saying that the outportb function was not prototyped and that function could not be resolved. The same kind of mistake can happen when you forget to include a .h file with the prototype of a function you are using (for instance, use of printf without including stdio.h), but this is not the case. How can I handle this situation? Regards, Marcos Sassahara. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com