Subject: Networking with || ports (Was: Re: Printing w/CR's)
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.berkeley.edu>
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/11/1994 09:43:59
> > Actually, the first solution that occurred to
> > me was "you mean the line printer driver doesn't live underneath
> > the serial protocol handler?", which of course already knows about
> > translating LF to CRLF and innumerable other perversions...
> 
> actually, that's a reasonable question, in any case -- for ||
> ports that are bidirectional, the words "high speed SLIP link" come
> to mind, though that's perverse...
> 
> 
> chris

Have a look in the kernrel Mach3.0 sources and you will find a driver for what you
ask for.

I think the issue here is to make the line protocol compatable with Linux
(and DOS hacks).

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