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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: I/O on parallel port
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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 02:22:31 UTC
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I have signed up for the Connectix video camera protocol
developers kit, and hope to code up a FreeBSD driver or
program for it. What would be helpful is if someone has
a driver (or knows how to fiddle the existing driver)
to do input as well as output. With more and more devices
finding their way to the parallel port, it seems more than
reasonable to come up with some nice standard way to do
this under the lp driver. I could do what the parallel zip
drive folks did and 'hijack' the whole port with my own driver,
but what fun would that be? :-)

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