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Scott Penrose scottp at dd.com.au
Sun Mar 28 17:24:57 CST 2004


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> Why the difference? Also, I'm curious to know which type of 
> applications
> care about this (in the original question, I didn't understand exactly
> how this was causing trouble).

It is to reduce my need for support :-)

Many users send a character to the parallel port driver by doing this...

	$pp->set_byte(0, 37);

instead of (like they should)

	$pp->set_byte(0, chr(37));

Even I have made that mistake, and I wrote the driver :-)

So if I can support both (and I am going to try) then I will get less 
people e-mailing me with a problem in their code :-)

Scooter
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