Communicate with stepper motors?

[Marty Knapp]

I was talking with a guy yesterday who said that using Basic you could 
use the printer port on Windows to talk to a stepper motor. I know 
pretty much nothing about robotics (or communicating through ports for 
that matter). Does anyone know if this is possible with Rev? I read 
through the docs and could see that one can read from and write data to 
com ports and LPT ports, but wouldn't a stepper motor just need 
electrical pulses sent to it?

I realize I'm revealing my ignorance to the world here, but any help 
would be appreciated.

Marty Knapp