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-// Parallel port extension for Win32
-// "inp" and "outp" are used to access the parallelport hardware
-// needs giveio.sys driver on NT/2k/XP
-//
-// (C) 2005 Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net>
-// this is distributed under a free software license, see license.txt
-
-#include <windows.h>
-#include <conio.h>
-
-#define DRIVERNAME "\\\\.\\giveio"
-
-/* module-functions */
-
-WINAPI void outp(int port, int value) {
- _outp(port, value);
-}
-
-WINAPI int inp(int port) {
- int value;
- value = _inp(port);
- return value;
-}
-
-WINAPI int init(void) {
- OSVERSIONINFO vi;
-
- //detect OS, on NT,2k,XP the driver needs to be loaded
- vi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(vi);
- GetVersionEx(&vi);
- if (vi.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT) {
- HANDLE h;
- //try to open driver
- h = CreateFile(DRIVERNAME, GENERIC_READ, 0, NULL,
- OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
- if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
- //if it fails again, then we have a problem... -> exception
- //"Couldn't access giveio device";
- return 1;
- }
- //close again immediately.
- //the process is now tagged to have the rights it needs,
- //the giveio driver remembers that
- if (h != NULL) CloseHandle(h); //close the driver's file
- }
- return 0;
-}