Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:00:07 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpt0 always busy Message-ID: <200509272200.08853.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050927102636.22f39e53.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509260849.50510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050927102636.22f39e53.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
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--nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:56, stanley jobson wrote: > > It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the > > printer is very very special.. > > > > What sort of printer is it? > > its a canon lbp 460 - ugly gdi printer :) Hmm, well lots of printers these days are raster only.. I'd recommend buying an Epson since they are usually more functional than= =20 Canon in !Win32. > > You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY > > for the open. > > one can print using lpt0.ctl? - thx 4 the hint - i'll check this ... Well, I'm pretty sure you can. AFAIK the only difference is that lpt0.ctl ignores BUSY on open so lptcontr= ol=20 can use it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDOTtQ5ZPcIHs/zowRAnbUAKCMMISUbGw54g1FkiJfgmy2Mo8w/QCfWLG2 ExqBy3lzx27vvrzFDwO63u0= =qTmf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3604398.G3OGlifiZV--
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