On Apr 8,  2:39pm, Ken Hornstein wrote:
} Subject: Re: Printing w/CR's
} are all meaningless in parallel.  If someone got a bi-direction parallel port
} driver working, I could see some reasons to interface it with the tty
} discipline stuff (like running SLIP/PPP over it).

     Now, this is an interesting idea.  The new Motorola V.FAST modem
and a couple others connect to the host via a parallel port, not a
serial port.  Also, newer printers (i.e. HP LJ4 series) return status
and error information using bidirectional parallel ports.  Both of
these mean that bidirectional parallel ports going through the tty
stuff and smarter printer drivers are going to be needed in the not
too distant future.

}-- End of excerpt from Ken Hornstein

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