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From: sjg@zen.void.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty)
Subject: Re: Epson LQ printer - Can it be done?
Organization: Zen programming...
References: <TONY.93Sep9182513@marge.apana.org.au> <1993Sep11.124630.22284@gmd.de> <279b1mINNjgb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <1993Sep16.115459.24351@gmd.de> <27mofkINNjo5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Message-ID: <1993Sep25.012313.24609@zen.void.oz.au>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 01:23:13 GMT
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j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>>3. If this worked with pre-0.2.3 lp drivers, is it really so difficult to
>>   compare the working version with the apparently buggy "innovation", and
>>   analyze the effect? Apparently some changed code caused this, and if 

>Since - as i said - i'm still using the _same_ lp driver, which also
>sucks now, it's not so obvious where to search. At least, the lp* drivers
>seem to be *not* the real problem.

I found the lpa driver would not work with my parallel printer too.
I simply ditched it in favour lpt.c (I use it without interrupts and
its pretty slow but it works).  One of the patches added the lpa probe
stuff to lpt and broke it, so I simply re-installed the old probe
code.  

I'm not at all sure that my version of lpt.c equates to any
distributed version at all,  I just make sure I have a safe copy
somewhere.


-- 
Simon J. Gerraty        <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>

#include <disclaimer>   /* imagine something _very_ witty here */