Dan Henry wrote:
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>What operating system does the laptop use?

Win 98.

>Could it simply be that some other process "owns" the >parallel port and will not let the Programmer >application access the port?

I dismounted the HP Printer drivers. Still no change.

> Or could it be that the Programmer application is >trying to access the ports directly, but is running >on an operating systems that does not allow direct >port access?

How to determine this? The writer of the application is not accessible on email.

Can anyone point to a utility for this.


Aurangzeb