Re: use Perl With usblp Parallel Adapter

Chances are that it won't work.

I think Device::ParallelPort needs an actual, physical parallel port to work, that is to give you low level access to its bits.

A USB parallel port emulator just pretends to be a parallel port, but in reality it isn't one.

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Re^2: use Perl With usblp Parallel Adapter by Joost (Canon) on Oct 03, 2009 at 15:21 UTC
Not necessarily. I've got a usb->serial cable here that identifies as /dev/ttyUSB0 and that works fine with Device::SerialPort. I'm assuming this is more of a driver issue than anything else. On the other hand, I'm fairly ignorant about hardware... "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]