Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:42:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bidirectional /dev/lpt0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811101441460.2215-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811101345360.818-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, David E. Cross wrote: > I have a bidirectional parallel port, however FreeBSD does not want to let > me read data from it: > bash-2.02# cat </dev/lpt1 > cat: stdin: Operation not supported by device > > (there is a printer attached to it). > > What am I doing wrong? The lpt device driver does not support reading. The hardware might take it but the system cannot. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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