I have a serial printer to which I am spooling jobs with lpd. Problem:
it doesn't assert carrier detect or readiness, so it needs the CLOCAL
flag to work. And the driver program needs bidirectional access to the
port.

So: adding CLOCAL to the ms flags in /etc/printcap doesn't seem to work.
The child lpd process blocks waiting to open the port and never spawns
the driver. Only if I run a separate program to open and hold the port
and do an stty -f /dev/tty01 clocal can I get it to work. Shouldn't
there be a cleaner way to do this? What am I missing?

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