RE: [avrdude-dev] Parallel port doesn't keep programmed states

[E. Weddington]

On 24 Nov 2003 at 22:17, Marc Wetzel wrote:

> Hi alltogether,
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that giveio is no "real" driver at all.
> 
> It just sets the appropriate rights to the user/program to write to the
> (normally locked) ports at all.

AFAIK, that is correct.
 
> It is not buggy. There is nothing to be buggy in it :) Have you ever
> looked over the code?
> 

Only "buggy", in the sense that it doesn't behave well with contention on 
the parallel port.
 
> What I saw all the times, is that users have print-queues running, with open
> documents in it and that interferes with any port writing at all...

Absolutely. This is why I wish there was a robust alternative to giveio on 
Windows.
 
Eric