Re: controlling a printer

["Jeff Knope" <jknope@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

I don't believe MW offers primitives for user-controlled device 
communications through the parallel port.  However, it does offer them for 
serial port communications.

In MWPro, descriptions of these primitives are found through the "Topics" 
Help menu > Appendices > For Systems Programmers...  I can't seem to find 
them in the EX Help System, but I see the primitives are present and 
functional in EX.

If you want to pursue this avenue, and you have EX (and also can't find them 
in Help), write me and I'll send you those descriptions from MWPro.

And please tell us more about your "muscle wire robot."

--Jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jbonnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mwforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:32 PM
Subject: controlling a printer


> We would like to send 5volt signals to the printer thru a parrallel cable. 
> Can
> we address the printer directly so that we can send signal to individual 
> pin on
> the cable. We are trying to send signals to a controller to control a 
> muscle
> wire robot. In Basic you supposedly can do it with LPRINT but it doesn't 
> seem
> to work and beides Logo is what we are working on and would give us better
> feedback.
> Thanks
> Jim Bonnes