just FWIW

I have checked the pulse, on the parallel port of an older PC
running win98, using a CNC program,

and the thing puts out a very nice 5volt square wave, it glitches once
in a while, I guess this is the noise spoken about, but it is doable to
do this in windows, or was....

then checking my simple program again using a delay, it was no
better, it seems that if you remove everything except the statement
which turns on the pin, it will change it from 0 to 5vdc, but something
turns the pin off again automatically, some windows feature or function.

So, like somebody said, it's back to the API or write another dll or
what ever,

If any of you know the solution to controling pins on the parallel port,
your help is appreciated....


thanks

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