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In Visual Basic, I use MSComm to read and write to serial ports. How do I do the same for parallel ports?

April 26, 2017parallel ports read serial visual basic write

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In Visual Basic, I use MSComm to read and write to serial ports. How do I do the same for parallel ports?

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Unfortunately, things aren’t as simple with the parallel port. If all you need is simple line-printer-type output (check the status lines and send each byte with a strobe), you may be able to use the Generic printer object, or the Createfile and Writefile API calls, or (16-bit only) Open “LPT1”.