Re: /dev/par0 very slow?

[Ingolf Koch <ingolf%knuut.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:22:01PM +0100, Ingolf Koch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> compared with PAR: (AmigaOS), /dev/par0 seems to be _very_
> slow. At least the printer connected to the parallel port
> prints the _same_ file much faster with COPY file PAR:
> than with cp file /dev/par0 (on -current NetBSD/amiga).
> 
> Is there something I should configure before accessing
> /dev/par0?

To be more precise: 20 cps with /dev/par0. Is it really
that slow? It turns out that the while() loop in parsend()
(which waits until old data has been read by the printer)
is almost never executed.

    Ingolf
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