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Subject: Re: Portable code for accessing the hardware ports under DOS and Linux
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 23:27:19 -0600
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Handling the ports directly under Linux is somewhat tedious.  You can
use libraries that handle all the sockets information you'll need. 
DJGPP has some networking libraries for it too.

"Pablo M. Dotro" wrote:
> 
> Hi to all!
> 
> I am creating a special made data adquisition software for one of the
> Physics labs of the university in which I work, and I have a mixed DOS/Win95
> and Linux network. My idea is to create a software that has to have the same
> look and feel under DOS and under Linux (probably using ncurses or sth. like
> that).
> So I decided to use DJGPP for the DOS/Win95 machines and the GCC of my
> RedHat 5.2 in the others. As far as I know, under DOS there are a couple of
> functions (inportb() and outportb() ) which handle the access to the
> hardware ports (I need to access port 0x220), but I do not know if they work
> under Linux... I've tested, and they do not seem ot exist under Linux, so
> either I have to use some other function or I need to add another include
> file under my Linux  project.
> Does anyone knows if there is a protable way to access hardware ports
> (without assembler)? Are there any standard functions to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Pablo M. Dotro
> pyd AT sion DOT com                pdotro AT USSEnterprise DOT com
> pdotro AT labs DOT df DOT uba DOT ar     ICQ#: 18144918
> http://www.usuarios.sion.com/abismo
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