Re: API ?
On 19 Dec 2003, at 7:00, Wolf wrote:
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> From: "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com>
> > You mean like to hide itself, so the victim won't know it's there? There's
> > other ways to find it running, sorry.
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> Not quite.... I'm trying to set 8 parallel ports to some determinate state
> *before* Windoze arbitrarily suspends the program's activity. The dialog's
> blahblah.exe ...working(not responding) message seems to suggest a more
> orderly
> suspension *might* be possible? [ like, hey... wait a sec, I'm doin' something
> important at the moment here ! ]
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> Yea, I know there's 200 pages of 'legal' docs telling us we can't use Windoze
> for *anything* critical, ( or, is that ... for anything? )
> but I'm a bit 'hardware' lazy at the moment...
Eight hardware parallel ports? Can you cram that many onto a windows box?
May i suggest separate boxen, and one port on the computer, might be
cheaper (altho slower, but it's used for such things as zip discs)?
Or even two on the puter and an external box (write the your external device
address to one actual hardware port, and read/write it on the other actual
hardware port)? This gives you 256 devices on the external box, and
essentially the same speed of the puter hardware, since the cpu is many
times faster than the parallel ports. And it would save you installing extra
port cards in the computer(s). This would be easy to do, i believe. There is
even existing port software in the archives.
Kat,
dreams hardware design.
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