[ct-user] A Newbie's question, NT

[Michael A. McCarthy, W1NR]

Someone would need to write a NT device driver to access the parallel
port.  Unlike DOS, NT does not allow you to access the hardware directly
without going through a driver.  I would assume that future versions
will require this as well.

Mike, W1NR

John D. Allen wrote:
> 
> Another issue for CT on windows, (with NT, not Win95) is that NT does
> not allow writing to the parallel port.  This is due to the fact that
> NT is a real OS that provides security between different processes
> and different users.  Maybe in NT Version 5, there will be a way
> around this.
> 
> John Allen
> K1AE
> 
> John D. Allen, jallen@vhfcom.com
> 
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