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Subject: How to initialize printer from user space?
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From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: 04 Mar 1997 17:37:55 +0100
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I'm looking for a way to send an INIT signal to a centronics part---I
need this to drive some non-standard hardware.  (I.e. from C code.)

The code is obviously in the kernel (and seems to get run at boot
time), I just don't know how to invoke it from user space.  Any help
would be *much* appreciated.

Cheers =8-} Mike