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Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:34:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Fabrizio Invernizzi <Fabrizio.Invernizzi@CSELT.IT>
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Subject: Re: Problems with nlpt
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On Fri, 21 May 1999, Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I need to use a printer (on lpt0) with my FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE workstation,
> so i am checking the parallel port configuration.
> 
> As described in the documentation, I configured my kernel to use ppbus and
> nplt0, but I found out that no nlpt0 device was in my /dev directory.
> 
> With MAKEDEV I obtain this:
> /dev#>./MAKEDEV nlpt0
> nlpt0 - no such device name

Try just lpt0.

Doug White                               
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