From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 17 00:07:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA10538 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:07:58 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA10531 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:07:56 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23330; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:07:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA01711 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:07:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA07337 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 08:54:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506170654.IAA07337@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Printer setup for HP laser 4 or Declaser 5100 ? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 08:54:27 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <9506170359.AA01683@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jun 17, 95 03:59:51 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 482 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Sean Kelly wrote: > > Amancio> I settle for the parallel interface,... > > It supports the so-called `Bitronics' interface, right? If so, make > sure your cable also supports two-way communication ... you want > diagnostics from PostScript, don't you? ...and get somebody hacking the lpt driver supporting input operations. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)