From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 10:04:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA23122 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA23116 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA06363 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:03:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from col-oh23-14.ix.netcom.com(207.220.130.206) by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006271; Mon Aug 25 12:02:51 1997 Message-ID: <3401BA6C.248@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:01:32 -0400 From: Richard Scranton Reply-To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions-digest V3 #375 References: <199708250833.BAA28681@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone ever used FreeBSD as a printer? I have a client who wants to capture information from a security system. The system currently logs information to a printer on a parallel port. It makes no allowance for anything more permanent or useable, so my options are limited to either OCR scanning (yechh) or putting something in place of the printer that can record the data as it is logged. Can the FreeBSD parallel printer port be used as a tty-style input device? Thanks for any ideas or pointers. -rs -- =================================================================== Richard Scranton - LDA Systems - Information Management Consulting scrantr@ix.netcom.com Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Atlanta