From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 14 4:40:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945A1155E4 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.2) with ESMTP id NAA75023 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:39:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id NAA21143 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:39:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from (talon@localhost) by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id NAA97366 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:39:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:39:54 +0100 From: Michel TALON To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: parallel printer & nlpt0 Message-ID: <20000114133954.A96965@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <14462.17367.949655.971736@onceler.kcilink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:50:41PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:50:41PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > >>>>> "RK" == Ronald Klop writes: > > > > RK> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > >> A comment in GENERIC would also suffice, I think. > > > > RK> Hello, > > > > RK> Maybe it's good to make an update of the man pages also. > > RK> Man lpt gives the info about the old lpt device (before ppbus was > > RK> introduced). Man nlpt gives info about the current (3.x-STABLE) lpt > > RK> device. Everything discussed in this thread is explained in that page. > > > > Actually, I was looking at the man page for ppc and it says nothing > > about using "net" instead of "tty", so that probably could use an > > update as well. The synopsis actually only lists the "tty" variant. > > > > But looking at 'man plip' wil show you the net option. But I agree, net > is an option to ppc, so it should also be mentioned in that man page. And moreover the significance of the flags tty and net is explained in man splnet. A reference to that page would be nice in man ppbus. -- Michel TALON To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message