Parallel ports
Workstation upto 6.5 allows max 3 parallel ports. This ports can use physical devices or files.
At the moment I do not know if Workstation 7 also allows 3 - maybe the same regression as with serial ports occured here - still need confirmation.
parallel0.present = "true"
parallel0.startConnected = "true"
parallel0.fileType = "file"
parallel0.fileName = "parport2txt.txt"
this settings use a textfile "parport2txt.txt" for the output
the device will start connected
parallel0.present = "true"
parallel0.startConnected = "true"
parallel0.bidirectional = "true"
parallel0.fileType = "device"
this settings use a automatically detected host-device
the device will start connected
the device uses bidirectional mode
parallel0.present = "true"
parallel0.startConnected = "true"
parallel0.bidirectional = false
parallel0.fileType = "device"
this settings use a automatically detected host-device
the device will start connected
the device does not use bidirectional mode
parallel0.present = "true"
parallel0.startConnected = "true"
parallel0.bidirectional = "true"
parallel0.fileType = "device"
parallel0.fileName = "LPT1"
this settings use host-device LPT1
the device will start connected