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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP drives
Date: 27 May 1997 23:45:33 GMT
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In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970527175631.22592B-100000@gold.interlog.com>,
	Ean Kingston <ean@gold.interlog.com> writes:

> A while back someone posted an announcement that they had made a driver
> for FreeBSD that let one use a parallel port zip drive.  Where can I get
> this driver?  I now have one and would like to use it with FreeBSD.

   http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html

I use version 0.40 on FreeBSD 2.1.6.  Its pretty slow, but does work.

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON