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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Epson LQ printer - Can it be done?
Date: 22 Sep 1993 11:37:11 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH Dresden, Germany
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Message-ID: <27p6c7INN6va@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <TONY.93Sep9182513@marge.apana.org.au> <1993Sep11.124630.22284@gmd.de> <279b1mINNjgb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <1993Sep16.115459.24351@gmd.de> <27at11$juc@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In <27at11$juc@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>[ LPT bugs ]
>In article <1993Sep16.115459.24351@gmd.de>,
>Holger Veit <veit@mururoa.gmd.de> wrote:
>>2. If this is a bug, and everyone agrees that it is, why the hell hasn't
>> someone digged into that and tried to correct this?
>The same reason that the wd driver is still buggy. Because the folks that
>fix such things don't need it, and are busy fixing other things they feel
>are more important.
[db code fixed]
>that those things are important. I would venture to say that those
>things are much more important to them than fixing lpt bugs.
Yes and no. Since i'm running BSD here on the local network's printer
server, i'm stuck there to 386BSD/0.2.2. (Btw., the lpd server runs
fine.) Okay, i've been too lazy personally. I always hoped someone
else would find the bug... Now i realize, it's on me to fix it if
i wanna have it.
On the other hand: there are so much other things, look for the fd
driver, for example. That's one of the reasons i didn't start to
investigate. But the day will come.
>I agree totally. When first setting up my 386BSD 0.1 box ages ago, I found
>out that my printer was absolutely and totally mis-configured (I think it
>was wired to my COM IRQ), but both my com driver and my lpt worked under
>DOS. (how, I'll never now)
But: my printer/card/cable/driver ran till i patched to 0.2.4. So i've
been hoping for some wizard that introduced the bug...
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