From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 11 21:28:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27831 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 21:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27826 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 21:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA03207; Mon, 12 May 1997 13:57:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705120427.NAA03207@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: PPA driver? In-Reply-To: <199705120329.UAA00317@joes.users.spiritone.com> from Joseph Stein at "May 11, 97 08:29:48 pm" To: joes@joes.users.spiritone.com (Joseph Stein) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:57:17 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joseph Stein stands accused of saying: > A few weeks ago, somebody sent me e-mail saying that they were going to > work on getting the PPA driver (for parallel port ZIP/JAZ drives) to > be a part of the sys distribution... > > I have lost my e-mail archive (that's what happens when you don't do > backups :() and forgot who it was... > > Any word on what the status currently is on that project? Last e-mail > I received about it said it would probably be in by last Thursday... I have a large box with US-export DHL labels on it under my desk. Something tells me that it probably contains the hardware I need to do this. This weekend I have to drive ~2000km to make a 10-minute presentation as an assessment component for a course I'm taking (I don't get marked on my driving, fortunately), however next week is looking slightly less frantic, and I expect to have some real results to show by the end. > joe -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[