Hi,

I was wondering what the status of the bpp driver is?  I noticed that it's
now listed under "supported" on the web page for 1.6.

Here's the situation:
I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the parallel port of a Sparc
LX, running NetBSD 1.6. If I simply cat a file to /dev/bpp0 it prints, but
printing via LPR doesn't do anything but make the printer feed the paper a
couple of times.  The job just sits in the queue until I remove it;
nothing's reported in /var/log/messages or /var/log/lpd-errors.

Here's my /etc/printcap entry for the printer:

ep0|Stylus Color 740 360dpi:\
        :lp=/dev/bpp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ep0:\
        :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs

Is this device really supported now?  MAKEDEV still doesn't create
/dev/bpp0 - had to do it by hand.  I've search USENET and the NetBSD mail
archives but there's nothing definitive or recent about this.  Is this
just a problem with LPD?

Thanks,
Greg Dunlap