From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 10:46:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA26438 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.PII.COM (pii.com [192.77.209.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA26432 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PII.COM by PII.COM (4.1/SMI-4.4) id AA02888; Mon, 25 Aug 97 10:51:19 PDT Received: from PII-Message_Server by pii.com with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:50:37 -0800 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:44:06 -0700 From: Robert Clark To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scrantr@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: questions-digest V3 #375 -Reply Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We've used a parallel to serial converter to do something like this. I don't know how hard they would be to get these days. I've ofter thought a direct parallel input would be more elegant, but I only come across the problem once every two years. [RC] >>> Richard Scranton 08/25/97 10:01am >>> 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