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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 05:22:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Hugh Strong <hstrong@eng2.uconn.edu>
Subject: Re: Slooww Printer Port
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        James Vaughton <vaughton@tower-unix.city-poly.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, James Vaughton wrote:
> 
> Boy I know that feeling... Right I posted a similar whinge a while back and
> thanks to the many replies I recieved I sorted it out. It seems that it is
> caused by sharing IRQ's. The simple solution is to use lptcontrol (or some
> similar command) to set the printer device to being a polled one... eg.
> 
> lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0
> 
> stick it in your rc.local and you should be sorted... The original answer to

> Hope this helps,
> James V.
> vaughton@unixa.lgu.ac.uk

Problem solved.  This really should be in a FAQ somewhere.  How
'bout it, guys?

					-- Hugh Strong
					hstrong@eng2.uconn.edu