Controlling external hardware via lpt0

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

* Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar> [2004-08-03 13:04 -0300]:
> I need to control some external hardware with a small program in
> FreeBSD. I thought about using the 8 data bits of the parallel port
> for sending the control bits  to the hardware.
> The hardware is a very simple combinational logic, triggered by level,
> I don't need any flow control or such.
> 
> The soft opens /dev/lpt0 and then writes whatever value is needed (i.e,
> if I need the 2 lsb to be high and the rest low, I write 0x3)

Wouldn't ppi(4) fit your needs better?

Nicolas