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Hi folks,

I have a Sun workstation which doesn't have USB. I want to be able to
download photos from SmartMedia cards onto the workstation. As far as I
know there are no drivers available for parallel port SmartMedia card
readers for Solaris. I have some experience of programming in C++ and a
lot of experience of PHP. Can anyone give me an idea of how hard it
would be to write a driver for the card reader for Solaris?

Best wishes,

Chris Tidy

Christopher Tidy wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a Sun workstation which doesn't have USB. I want to be able to
> download photos from SmartMedia cards onto the workstation. As far as
> I know there are no drivers available for parallel port SmartMedia
> card readers for Solaris. I have some experience of programming in
> C++ and a lot of experience of PHP. Can anyone give me an idea of how
> hard it would be to write a driver for the card reader for Solaris?

You're completely off-topic for this newsgroup, which deals with ISO
standard C++, hence no parallel ports or operating system specific
constructs.

You will need to find a more appropriate newsgroup, comp.unix.solaris
might be a good place to start.




Brian

Default User wrote:
> Christopher Tidy wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have a Sun workstation which doesn't have USB. I want to be able to
> > download photos from SmartMedia cards onto the workstation. As far as
> > I know there are no drivers available for parallel port SmartMedia
> > card readers for Solaris. I have some experience of programming in
> > C++ and a lot of experience of PHP. Can anyone give me an idea of how
> > hard it would be to write a driver for the card reader for Solaris?
>
> You're completely off-topic for this newsgroup, which deals with ISO
> standard C++, hence no parallel ports or operating system specific
> constructs.
>
> You will need to find a more appropriate newsgroup, comp.unix.solaris
> might be a good place to start.

Okay. Thanks Brian. I actually thought about posting at
comp.unix.solaris, but chose here instead. Obviously I was wrong.

Chris

Christopher Tidy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a Sun workstation which doesn't have USB. I want to be able to
> download photos from SmartMedia cards onto the workstation. As far as I
> know there are no drivers available for parallel port SmartMedia card
> readers for Solaris. I have some experience of programming in C++ and a
> lot of experience of PHP. Can anyone give me an idea of how hard it
> would be to write a driver for the card reader for Solaris?
>

Your question is highly off-topic. This newsgroup is for discussion of
the Standard C++ language as defined by ISO/IEC 14882. Please ask in a
newsgroup related to your platform.

Please see http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...t.html#faq-5.9

Thank you.

red floyd wrote:
> Christopher Tidy wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have a Sun workstation which doesn't have USB. I want to be able to
> > download photos from SmartMedia cards onto the workstation. As far as I
> > know there are no drivers available for parallel port SmartMedia card
> > readers for Solaris. I have some experience of programming in C++ and a
> > lot of experience of PHP. Can anyone give me an idea of how hard it
> > would be to write a driver for the card reader for Solaris?
> >
>
> Your question is highly off-topic.

Perhaps not highly off-topic. It's not like my post was about the Mark
Foley sex scandal or something. An understandable mistake to make, I
think. But I take your point and I'll ask the question elsewhere.

Chris