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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:37:50 +0000
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: falacy <fbsdfalacy@shaw.ca>
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Subject: Re: 5.1-R plip0 issue (BSD --> Linux)
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 07:08:15AM +0000, falacy wrote:
> Anyone who is hooking up a slackware linux box to a freeBSD 5.1 system over 
> the parallel port, skip the hand book all together and add the following 
> lines to your /etc/rc.conf file, 

The answer has been in the plip(4) man page all along, perhaps encouraging
people not to read documentation is a bad thing?

BMS