Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:29:18 +0100
>Just goes to show my ignorance of the read back functionality of the lp
>driver.
Actually what Andrea quoted isn't what the lp driver is supposed to do. It
seems he's managed to get it to perform the same function as the code in
parport_probe, ie ask the device for its built-in ID information.
>Do we have a program / proc entry which lists the device capabilities, I just
Turn on the autoprobe and look in /proc/parport.
>Is there any other cute features that I do not know about?
Pass. :-)
Probably not actually. The real intent of the lp readback code is to allow
you to get status information out of IEEE-1284 printers. This isn't
standardised as far as I can tell, though, so it's of less use at the moment.
p.
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