Breaking NT port access

[Steve Charlewood]

I am porting a DOS-based keyboard programming program to the Windows platform and I've run into a major stumbling block. Windows will not allow me access to the keyboard port, which I need to write to, and read from, directly. Checking around seems to suggest that the only way I'm going to get around this is to rewrite the keyboard driver to allow direct access.

Can _anyone_ suggest a method that would prevent me having to slog through NT driver engineering for weeks?

thanks

steven charlewood

Dr. Dobbs Journal described a tool which could give access to a single port or to the full I/O-range a couple a years ago.
You can possible find it by search (the name is GiveIO as far as I remember).

Good luck