From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: PICs on Linux
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:03:54 +1300
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To: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>, gnupic@linuxhacker.org, linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org

> However:
> Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels provide a ppdev device driver
> that allows raw parallel port access via /dev/parports/0
> etc. DOSEMU could virtualize the parallel port hardware
> and re-route it through that device thereby avoiding the
> root issue. I don't have any parallel port hardware to
> play with but it could be a nice little project to
> implement in DOSEMU one day.

Wine has this already:
http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/dlls/winedos/ppdev.c?rev=1.3
it may even be fairly easy to port this.

Bart