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From: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
To: "Toby Swanson" <toby@milkyway.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: slow printing
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:22:52 +1000
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>From: Toby Swanson <toby@milkyway.org>

 I can't remember the exact command, but the trick is to set
 the lpt0 device to "polled" mode. It is there somewhere in the
 printing docs or howto's



>I have set up a print server running FreeBSD 2.1.7.  The hardware
>seems to be set up correctly.  When I "type" a file to lpt1: in DOS
>the printer prints it immediatly.  When I cat a file to /dev/lpt0 in
>FreeBSD it prints a line, waits a second or two, prints a line, waits
>a second or two, and so on until the file has printed.  Using the print
>spooler gets the same results.  I checked the man pages, FAQ,
>Complete FreeBSD, no hits.  The mailing list archive had one hit, but
>the message was not available.  Any help, including pointers to other
>areas of info, is greatly appreciated.
>



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