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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!news.boulder.noaa.gov!news From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Okidata printer problem identified :( Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:26:44 -0600 Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Lines: 26 Message-ID: <316E6824.6223@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <4kk24t$mfr@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/715) Darryl Watson wrote: > the printer requires bi-directional communications, and FreeBSD doesn't > yet support that option. Why does the printer *require* bidirectional communication over the parallel? It seems quite suspect, to me. Not that I don't believe you, but Okidata would be limiting its market share---there's a lot of PCs out there that can't support bidir parallel port comms because of hardware and not the OS that's driving 'em. This is a 610e/PS printer? That's PostScript? Although bidir comms are nice for PostScript, they're not absolutely necessary. I have a sneaking suspicion you *can* print with FreeBSD to this printer. As a quick test, plug it in and type the following (as root): cat > /dev/lpt0 %!PS 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke showpage CTRL+D And let me know what happens, if anything. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/