> If IO is generic, then printing the type of printer it finds is > meaningless, right? It's going to announce "generic" no matter what, > then it should stay silent, right? Better to say nothing than to get it > wrong every time, especially with the correct info sitting mere lines > above, advertising the mistake.
It's not a mistake as such; the printer is of type <foo>, and it has a generic printer interface (lpt0). Printing the printer details is not unhelpful (eg. it means you can use dmesg to find which printer is where, etc.) > I can't cat /dev/lpt0 and get any status. I did the lptcontrol -e, so I > *think* I;m in extended mode, and it *does* print. I guess I have to > find out what I can buy to play with this further. I would like to have > some logic level outputs, so I can do some direct machine control, and > doing it via my printer port sounds cool. Know anything like that? ppi(4) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
