David Campbell (campbell@torque.net)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:05:17 +0800
Date sent: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:02:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>
To: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk>
Copies to: Carsten Gross <carsten@sol.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de>, linux-parport@torque.net,
Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
Subject: [PARPORT] Re: [patch] ieee1284 nibble mode
> Now that for the first time in my life it works I get:
>
> > root@laser:/home/andrea# cat /dev/lp0
> ?MFG:EPSON;CMD:ESCPL2,BDC,D4;MDL:Stylus COLOR 740;CLS:PRINTER;
Just goes to show my ignorance of the read back functionality of the lp driver.
Do we have a program / proc entry which lists the device capabilities, I just
had a peek around the parport web pages but I could not find any reference to
the above command or its functionality. I supose that if this was to work for
most printers then RedHat (and other distributions) could automagically create
the printer files. I do remember someone from RedHat asking for this info...
Is there any other cute features that I do not know about?
David Campbell
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