reading from a parallel port

Wed Apr 10 06:57:14 AEST 1991

dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:

>In article <1991Apr8.182526.17852 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> djk at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Doug Kelly) writes:
>>Hello, Im trying to write a program to interface to my Epson ES-300C color
>>scanner.  It uses a bi-directional parallel interface, and i cant figure out
>>how to 'read' from a parallel port.  Im using borland turbo c, any help would
>>be appreciated.  Thanks

How has this ANYTHING at all to do with C???

This is a *VERY* *MACHINE* *SPECIFIC* question.
Why don't you try asking this in an appropriate group?