PARPORT(3)

✨ PARPORT(3) — the Structures era ✨

okay bestie, so this is parport(3), and it lives in the Structures section of the manual, which honestly is giving very much "data types that carry the whole team" energy 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

parport — literally just the representation of a parallel port. that's it. that's the whole job. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ieee1284.h>

that's the entire vibe. one include and you're in. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so a parport structure represents a parallel port. that's the tea, that's the whole thing, no cap. ✨

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💖 STRUCTURE MEMBERS 💖

the structure has the following members, and yes we're listing every single one because we don't skip:

struct parport {
  /* An artibrary name for the port. */
  const char *name;

  /* The base address of the port, if that has any meaning, or zero. */
  unsigned long base_addr;

  /* The ECR address of the port, if that has any meaning, or zero. */
  unsigned long hibase_addr;

  /* The filename associated with this port,
   * if that has any meaning, or NULL. */
  const char *filename;
};

let's break it down bestie, member by member, main character by main character 🌈

• const char *name — an artibrary name for the port. (yes, the original says "artibrary". we are respecting the typo, it's iconic now, it's part of the lore 💀)
• unsigned long base_addr — the base address of the port, if that has any meaning, or zero. so like... only meaningful sometimes. mood tbh.
• unsigned long hibase_addr — the ECR address of the port, again if that has any meaning, or zero. same energy, different address 🍓
• const char *filename — the filename associated with this port, if that has any meaning, or NULL. the "if that has any meaning" girlies are really running this struct huh 😭

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

Author.

like, THE author. the one. the blueprint. slay. 💜

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2001-2003 Tim Waugh

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and that's a wrap on parport(3) from the Structures section, dated 09/18/2007 — thanks for coming to my ted talk, go forth and represent those parallel ports, mwah 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅