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| 2 | .\" lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver | |
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| 8 | .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. | |
| 9 | .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright | |
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| 13 | .\" | |
| c069f1e9 | 14 | .\" $Id$ |
| 053e40ad GR |
15 | .TH lptcontrol 1 "March 12, 1994" "" "FreeBSD" |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | .SH NAME | |
| 18 | lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver. | |
| 19 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 20 | .na | |
| 21 | .B lptcontrol | |
| 22 | .RB [options] | |
| 23 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 24 | The | |
| 25 | .B lptcontrol | |
| 26 | command is used to set either the interrupt-driven or polling mode | |
| 27 | of individual lpt devices. When a printer is switched between | |
| 28 | interrupt-driven and polled mode, this change will only take effect | |
| 29 | the next time the device is opened. | |
| 30 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 31 | .TP | |
| 32 | The following command line options are supported. | |
| 33 | .TP | |
| 34 | .B \-i | |
| 35 | Turns on interrupt-driven mode. | |
| 36 | .TP | |
| 37 | .B \-p | |
| 38 | Turns on polled mode. | |
| 39 | .TP | |
| 40 | .BI "\-f\ " file | |
| 41 | Sets the mode of the printer device specified by | |
| 42 | .I file. | |
| 43 | The default value for | |
| 44 | .I file | |
| 45 | is | |
| 46 | .I /dev/lpt0 | |
| 47 | .TP | |
| 48 | One of | |
| 49 | .B \-i | |
| 50 | or | |
| 51 | .B \-p | |
| 52 | must be specified. | |
| 53 | .PP | |
| 54 | .SH FILES | |
| 55 | /dev/lpt? | |
| 56 | .PP | |
| 57 | .SH BUGS | |
| 58 | Sure to be some. | |
| 59 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 60 | .BR lpt (4) , | |
| 61 | .BR /sys/i386/conf/GENERICAH | |
| 62 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 63 | Geoffrey M. Rehmet |