cgd@cs.cmu.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:

>> The Right Way(tm) to do this is to make the parallel port an abstract
>> device, which can have either:
>I'm not sure that I agree with that.

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>In my opinion, a line discipline-line mechanism would probably be much
>more appropriate.  ("why aren't ppp, SLIP, mice, etc., configured as
>devices on serial ports?")

In fact, on some Unix versions the parallel port driver is a tty
driver, so you could use line disciplines.
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