Ernst du Toit wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to read the status messages from my Epson Stylus Printer
> attached via USB with epsUtils and escputil shipping with gimp-print.
>
> Both fail trying to read from /dev/ulpt0. Does the ulpt driver in 1.5.1
> support reading from the port?

No, you can't read from the ulpt.  This is following the way lpt works,
but necessarily what you want. :-)

It's probably easy to add read if you know exactly what the read is
supposed to do.  I don't.

    -- Lennart