Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-06 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 11:10AM -0500), Douglas Taylor wrote: > On 11/5/2015 9:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote: > >On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +), d...@661.org wrote: > >>Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily > >>work with Linux? > >FT245?? > > > >https://

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-06 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 11/5/2015 9:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote: On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +), d...@661.org wrote: Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily work with Linux? FT245?? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841 Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread dave
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, drlegendre . wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote: On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +), d...@661.org wrote: Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily work with Linux? FT245?? https://www.sparkfun.com/produc

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread drlegendre .
@Chris For printing use, I've purchased & used several of the ultra-cheap USB to Parallel cable devices, readily available on eBay for about $2.00-$3.00 each. Plugs & play, no troubles at all on recent Linux (Xubuntu) and Windows. Is that helpful? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +), d...@661.org wrote: > > Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily > work with Linux? FT245?? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841 Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other settings are igno

usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread dave
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily work with Linux? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?