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#Muscle port I/O

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#2820From: Bruce OlsenOct 12, 1991 11:25 PM
Mark, I noticed your company's Muscle library has functions for Port I/O. My company has a card we developed that uses port I/O with DOS (no hw interupts). Would it make sense to use Muscle to control our card from VB? I seem to recall people saying that the appropriate way to access our hardware with Windows is through a custom driver that we would have to develop. Is there a difference between the Muscle DLL and a "Driver"? Bruce There is 1 Reply.
#2845From: Mark Novisoff/MicroHelpOct 13, 1991 10:17 AM
Bruce, If all you need is INP and OUT, then writing a driver is definitely not necessary. Also, there is a DLL available for download (here on CIS) that has only the INP and OUT routines. If you find some of the other 435 routines in Muscle to be of interest, then using only the Muscle DLL would be appropriate (again, without a driver). Mark There is 1 Reply.
#3077From: Bruce OlsenOct 14, 1991 8:39 PM
Mark, Thanks for the info on INP and OUT. I'll probably get Muscle anyway if we decide to use it for Lurker development. Bruce