Serial / Printer Port Programming

The Story:
A project was presented to me and it involves Web Programming, Kernel Tweaking and A Kiosk Interface.. its all good..

and all of a sudden.... my friend told me.. "Ahh also.. we need to control 7 lights to go on and off and that should be controlled by your system".....

All Hell Breaks Loose!

The Question:
1) Is C the right tool for the job? (i dont want to go.. ASM on LINUX )
2) My Guess is to control the on and off switch via Printer Port.
3) Can any1 point me into some sort of a hardware/software/code that would do such thing?


Tnx.

Maybe
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html

And if you get bored with that, here's some more
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...lel+port+relay

Nice Links! Tnx!

Gonna dig into it!