http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/Parport/README author Neil Franklin, last modification 2007.10.30 Introduction to my PC Parallel Port tools project Aim was my desire to play around with the parallel port. Basicall this program can just write, read and read-modify-write the 3 registers on any of the 3 PC parrallel ports. The rest ist various nice to have comfort features. Read the man page with man parport , or use the on-line help with parport -h Note that this program must run SUID root. Read the SECURITY section in the man page about this.