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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:47:30 -0500
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Bidirectional /dev/lpt0
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811101345360.818-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu>

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I have a bidirectional parallel port, however FreeBSD does not want to let
me read data from it:
bash-2.02# cat </dev/lpt1
cat: stdin: Operation not supported by device

(there is a printer attached to it).

What am I doing wrong?

--
David Cross


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