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To: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:03:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: Anybody using gp driver? 
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In message <20031128144312.GA39403@pmp.uni-hannover.de>, Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?
K=FChn?= writes:

>BTW: Are there more people around (except for you and me :-) who would like 
>to see decent gpib-support in FreeBSD?

Yes, me.

I'm currently running on a hacked up "GPIB from userland" I did myself,
unfortunately it works well enough that I have never gotten around to
push it into the kernel.

	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/GPIB.tgz

On the other hand, GPIB is not going to be a major market for us, but 
merely a fringe convenience feature I suspect.

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