From 1f9c5decc4484ab86219d4edaf1036500d65986c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrzej Telszewski Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:58:56 +0200 Subject: libraries/libparapin: Added to 13.0 repository --- libraries/libparapin/README | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 libraries/libparapin/README (limited to 'libraries/libparapin/README') diff --git a/libraries/libparapin/README b/libraries/libparapin/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..303278ee06 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libparapin/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Parapin makes it easy to write C code under Linux that controls individual +pins on a PC parallel port. This kind of control is very useful for +electronics projects that use the PC's parallel port as a generic digital I/O +interface. Parapin goes to great lengths to insulate the programmer from the +somewhat complex parallel port programming interface provided by the PC hardware, +making it easy to use the parallel port for digital I/O. By the same token, this +abstraction also makes Parapin less useful in applications that need to actually +use the parallel port as a parallel port (e.g., for talking to a printer). + +Parapin has two "personalities": it can either be used as a user-space C library, +or linked as part of a Linux kernel module. This SlackBuild provides user-space +only library. -- cgit v1.2.3