perlquestion
rje
Here's a question, out of the blue, for the gearheads.<br>
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Can perl operate a port on my PC? Can it listen for <br>
signals and respond to them? Can it talk on the printer<br>
port?<br>
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The thought just occurred to me that if it could, it would<br>
be much easier for me personally to write a 'driver' for<br>
a specialized application using the printer port,<br>
than to write it in a language I don't have a compiler<br>
for (C, for example).<br>
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My venerable Commodore 64 uses a really simple protocol <br>
to talk to its disk drive; some have written drivers to<br>
use the PC as a virtual disk drive for the Commodore.<br>
Perhaps I can do that too, in perl...<br>
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Thanks for your time...<br>
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Rob