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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:08:46 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Parallel port device in cygwin
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:27:57PM -0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>I've been trying out Luke Bakken's port of LPRng with a local printer
>connected to the parallel port. In the printcap file, I've tried setting the
>device name to PRN, but lpd objects to it being non absolute path name, I also
>tried setting it to /PRN, but that seems to cause lpd to hang. Luke suggests
>cygwin needs the LPT1 port available as a /dev/lpxx simulated device, but I'm
>wondering if there is another way, such as symlink from /dev/lp to PRN?
>
>Thoughts and comments welcome.

cygwin doesn't have a fhandler layer for parallel ports, currently.  So,
the only way to reference a parallel is via the raw msdos names, like
'lpt1', 'prn'.

I don't know why referring to /lpt would cause things to hang.

cgf

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