On 03-Apr-99 zentara wrote:
>
> "(Ted Harding)" wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of anything which would let me have a little
>> chat with my parallel port (/dev/lp1)?
>>
>
> cat textfile > /dev/lp1
Thanks for the tip, but I know how to do that. I want a little *chat*,
i.e. send it some bytes (to the printer) and read what the printer sends
back, and continue like that for a while.
(It's one of these printers that has a "printer job language" that
enables it to report sundry status info by the parallel port; it comes
with a DOS utility for the purpose, but I'd prefer to avoid using that).
With thanks,
Ted.
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Date: 03-Apr-99 Time: 06:06:59
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