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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!lunde From: lunde@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Grupe) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Need a 386BSD or NetBSD binary kernel with lpt driver Date: 9 May 1993 02:32:26 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 34 Message-ID: <1shqfq$dqr@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <2BEC5486.28325@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: troll.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: lpt parallel driver printer date timezone jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes: >Subject line says it. Would someone be so nice as to let me know of a >site where I could obtain one with the int-less prtr driver, or send >me e/mail to make arrangements? I need to print. (Actually, it would >be nice if the interruptless printer driver were automatically >included in the main distribution, since we're not on Vaxen or Suns >and the whole point is to support 386's, which are going to more than >likely have lpt ports and non-Postscript printers on them anyway when >people switch over from MS-DOS). >Also, it would be nice to have one with a second hard drive supported >automatically, too, so that when I get a second ESDI, I can just hook it >up and reboot. >(BTW this is unrelated, but I cannot get my date to set right. Is this >REALLY something that has to be compiled in? Or is there just a time- >zone file somewhere? I've wondered this for months...) >Thanks to any/all who respond. >Jeff Stern <jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu> >"Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you." Speaking of a parallel line printer.... How would I configure/use any lpt device? It is not in the standard installation, is it? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lars Grupe UID lunde <lunde@cs.tu-berlin.de> Technische Universitaet Berlin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------