nes8bit: vb question

Not nes but me

Anyway, IIRC it works kinda like this:

nFileNum = Freefile
Open "LPT1:" For Output As nFileNum

(may also be without the colon)

and then

Print #nFileNum, --your data goes here--

for every chunk of data... you'll probably want to use a ";" at the end of the line so no CrLf is added.

To close the port use

Close nFileNum


It may also work with "For Binary", you'll have to use Put instead of print then.

If LPT1 or LPT1: don't work, you could try PRN.

I haven't done this for a long time (not since VBDOS 1.0) so I might be wrong.


- JQ
pmjordan@gmx.at

lead programmer,
PWC Software


Edited by - JonnyQuest on September 14, 2000 3:29:28 PM

Yup. It also works with COM1 COM2 and so on... It worked the last time I tried it, but it froze my computer a few times.

hmm...this gives me an idea though...

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Just make a DLL in C++ with the functions, and call it in Visual Basic.

That''s pointless

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