Newsgroups: sci.electronics.misc
Subject: Re: Web controled parallel port ?
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"myozone"  writes:

> Hi all, I trying to find some software (html,java ?) to control my parallel
> port on my PC. The idea is click on buttons to turn the 8 ? ports on and
> off, on a web page that is running on my local PC (here!)

For controlling parallel port you can find information at
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html

Besides that to make the things work you should have a web
server running in your system and have your own controlling
programs runnig as CGI script. I just hacked up a simple
test for that using Linux, Apache web server, parallel port control
program from  http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html
document, some simple shell scripts as CGI scripts and that
HTML page (a form with buttons). I got it working quite easily.
Maybe some day when I have time I will document that to
www.epanorama.net documents/circuits section because there
seems to be interrest in this kind of topics.

You don't need any Java to get this kind of simple controlling
done. And using it would not make the things easier in any way
(more complicated to start anyway becase Java can't directly
control parallel port for example).

-- 
Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
Take a look at my electronics web links and documents at 
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