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From: James Olson <olson>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: lpt0 prints one character / second
Date: 23 Oct 1995 20:10:47 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
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Hi , I had a similar problem
when I was trying to get my hp660c working.
What I did was make the lpt0 prot polled instead of interupt driven
then everything worked fine.
you can use lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0
or something similar to that ... see the man page.
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