Need some help programming an program for school project please help

[ETS]

hi, I'm new to the forum and I hope that i have put this in to the right section...

anyway here is my problem, i have to build an electronic device for a school project ( we have to build a device at the end of schooling to show our knowledge). I have decided to make a project that will control step motors via the computers parallel port. So in order to make it work i have decided to write a program that will send trough the parallel port signals that will be interpret via the microcontroller. here is only a part of my code that i need help with:

it must send 3 bits of information via the data pins after that the program choses what is the combination of the pins and choses via the case command the appropriate functions. so if i would write this :

void move(void)
{
   do
    {
       outportb(0x378,0x01);
       if ((inportb(0x379,0x80))==0){
       return ;}
    }
       loop
      return;
}

two questions will this work and will this keep pulsing the 1 bit on the port or will it just leave it on high value?

thanks in advance... ETS

-- P.S. Greetings from Croatia

[ithelp]

Not that simple,the motor will not understand computer signals,

[Colin Mac]

If you make the parallel port pins high, they stay high until you make them low.

Not that simple,the motor will not understand computer signals,

This is just nonsense.

[ETS]

well thank you, this solves one half of my problem... the other half I can test on hardware... P.S. The motor will understand the computer signals because I'm using the computer just to start some electronics that will drive the motor...