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- From: houten@prso.pttnwb.nl (K. van Houten)
- Subject: Re: Centronics port: really write-only?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.063503.18503@pttdis.pttnwb.nl>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:35:03 GMT
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- In article <7371196@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, rdg@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Rob Gardner) writes:
- |>
- |> > "man cent" on my 9000/730 (HPUX 8.07) tell me that the Centronics parallel
- |> > port only supports writes. Is this a hardware or a software limitation?
- |> >
- |> > If it's a software limitation, does anyone know if/when reads from the
- |> > Centronics port might be supported?
- |>
- |> It's a manual page limitation. The 700 parallel port can do bidirection
- |> I/O. If only you know the mode bits in the minor number...
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- Rob,
-
- Please tell me, I would like to get the postscript error messages (from my
- Laserjet III) back to the system.
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