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Date:      18 Jan 2000 08:45:13 +0100
From:      sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: parallel printer & nlpt0
Message-ID:  <y9lzou3g6wm.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
In-Reply-To: Michel TALON's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:39:54 %2B0100"
References:  <14462.17367.949655.971736@onceler.kcilink.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001132234410.308-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl> <20000114133954.A96965@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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>>>>> "Michel" == Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> writes:

Michel> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:50:41PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
>> 
>> > >>>>> "RK" == Ronald Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl> 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.


Michel> And moreover the significance of the flags tty and net is explained in
Michel> man splnet. A reference to that page would be nice in man ppbus.

I've read that, but how does this difference account for the printer
problems people are having?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla


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