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Finding available LPT (parallel) ports and addresses in Delphi

Hi, I am doing direct I/O on a parallel port which is fine and necessary for speed. I would like to enumerate the available ports to offer the user a choice of ports at setup time rather than a tedious trawl through device manager to read the address manually. Does anyone know a means of doing this please? Many thanks, Brian

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According to this Microsoft article, for Win2K and newer, you can find details of parallel-connected devices in the registry at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\LPTENUM.

Scott W  2008-12-17 13:55:08
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Many thanks Scott, I'll investigate. Brian.

Brian Frost  2008-12-17 14:19:11

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