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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5166 comp.os.386bsd.development:1215 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!taronga!bonkers!peter From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Epson LQ printer - Can it be done? Organization: Taronga Park BBS References: <TONY.93Sep9182513@marge.apana.org.au> <1993Sep11.124630.22284@gmd.de> <279b1mINNjgb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Message-ID: <CDHAp6.2It@taronga.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 03:22:04 GMT Lines: 15 In article <279b1mINNjgb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> wrote: >Please accept that this IS A BUG in *BSD, not in the cables. I really think you have a marginal parallel port that only shows up the problem with lpa. I'm using lpa with an LQ570 with no problems. I've had problems with PC parallel ports in the past. One would reboot the computer every time I power cycled the printer, and that was under System V. They work fine polled under DOS, but fail under an O/S that pushes the spec more. Watch the news. People running OS/2 and NT are finding this stuff out, too. It could be that Half-OS and Not There will help BSD by forcing vendors to ship working hardware.