gruffy321 0 Light Poster

hI all an thanks for taking time to read this :)

my prob lies with speaking to the parallel port in xp using borland turbo for assembly.
i have read a bt about it and it seems there are workarounds involving vb or c/c++ but.
my project assignment requires that i control traffic lights (yeah that old chestnut)through the parallel port. i know it is well workec on in the anals of the web but i seem to be unable to make sense of it .
any help will be humbly accepted
yours in hope
gruffy321
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