Subj : Re: turbo C++ 3.0, bioscom To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Bruce Salzman Date : Tue Aug 24 2004 10:39 pm > Biosprint sends data to the printer ports (lpt1, lpt2), which are > parallel ports, and their mission in life is to send parallel data. Of course, each data line is effectively a serial stream of bits. If you format the data so that all the interesting bits are in the same position... Regards, Bruce .