[plug] Retracting the CD tray from the lpt port.

[Ryan]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 12:48, James Budworth wrote:
> Anyone know of a program that looks at the state of an input on the LPT
> port and then executes a command when that input changes ?
<snip>
> If there isn't a specific program to do it, how difficult would it be to
> do with perl?  I'm no programmer but I've had a little expirience with
> perl.
 
I haven't done it, but you got me interested and I found this which
makes it look possible:

http://search.cpan.org/author/SCOTT/Device-ParallelPort-0.03/lib/Device/ParallelPort.pm

Ryan


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