From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 17 23:45:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (lesbains.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8251504E for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (brabantio [134.2.12.25]) by lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB1643D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:45:14 +0100 (NFT) Received: (from sperber@localhost) by informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24526; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:45:14 +0100 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel printer & nlpt0 References: <14462.17367.949655.971736@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000114133954.A96965@lpthe.jussieu.fr> From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: 18 Jan 2000 08:45:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: Michel TALON's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:39:54 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.2 (Millenium) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Michel" == Michel TALON 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message