Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.driver,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd
From: simon_lee@super.zippo.com (Simon Lee)
Subject: Re: DMA!!
Organization: Zippo
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:56:16 GMT
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:09:32 -0700, Santosh Nair
<sanju@cyberway.com.sg> wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Please let me know how to use the DMA Channels under Windows 3.1 & Win95.
>Also, I need to write a driver to send data over the parallel port at a
>transfer rate of about 8KBytes/70msecs.
>1. Is this possible??
>2. Will the use of DMA enable me to send data more efficiently & quickly?
>3. How do I use DMA under Windows?
>
>Since i do not visit the news server very often I would appreciate any
>help in the form of an EMail.  My EMail ID is 'santosh@spi.st.com.sg'
>
>Looking forward for answers,
>
>Regards,
>Santosh Nair
>
Some code doing somthing like you want to do was published in dr dobbs
April96, take a look at the archives at www.ddj.com

take care simon.
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