From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 14 11:35:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29437 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles146.castles.com [208.214.165.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29432 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:35:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04853; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902141931.LAA04853@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey cc: Nicolas Souchu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New print interface In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:16:11 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:31:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If IO is generic, then printing the type of printer it finds is > meaningless, right? It's going to announce "generic" no matter what, > then it should stay silent, right? Better to say nothing than to get it > wrong every time, especially with the correct info sitting mere lines > above, advertising the mistake. It's not a mistake as such; the printer is of type , and it has a generic printer interface (lpt0). Printing the printer details is not unhelpful (eg. it means you can use dmesg to find which printer is where, etc.) > I can't cat /dev/lpt0 and get any status. I did the lptcontrol -e, so I > *think* I;m in extended mode, and it *does* print. I guess I have to > find out what I can buy to play with this further. I would like to have > some logic level outputs, so I can do some direct machine control, and > doing it via my printer port sounds cool. Know anything like that? ppi(4) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message