From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 12:49: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-91.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B714237B41B for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:49:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g04Kp6O04650; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:51:06 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:51:05 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does lpt0 work under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020105095105.A4196@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200201042038.VAA20815@smtp.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200201042038.VAA20815@smtp.hccnet.nl>; from s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:44:02PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:44:02PM +0000, Simon Siemonsma wrote: > Searching through the cups mailing list at http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php > (cups.general newsgroup and searching for FreeBSD) I got the following > information: > "Nonsense, under FreeBSD there are *no* parallel port options. > > Unless you want to print through a serial port CUPS is useless as a print > > service." > > Is this true? Unlikely. The base O/S's printing system on uses /dev/lpt0 on my system just fine. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message