* Copyright (c) 1994 Geoffrey M. Rehmet
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
* must display the following acknowledgement:
* This product includes software developed by Geoffrey M. Rehmet
* 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
* derived from this software withough specific prior written permission
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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* THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#define DEFAULT_LPT "/dev/lpt0"
static char default_printer
[] = DEFAULT_LPT
;
static void usage(const char * progname
)
fprintf(stderr
, "usage: %s -i | -p [-f <file name>]\n", progname
);
static void set_interrupt_status(int irq_status
, const char * file
)
if((fd
= open(file
, O_WRONLY
, 0660)) < 0) {
if(ioctl(fd
, LPT_IRQ
, &irq_status
) < 0) {
int main (int argc
, char * argv
[])
char * file
= default_printer
;
while((opt
= getopt(argc
, argv
, "pif:")) != -1)
case 'i': irq_status
= USE_IRQ
; break;
case 'p': irq_status
= DO_POLL
; break;
case 'f': file
= optarg
; break;
default : usage(argv
[0]);
if(irq_status
== IRQ_INVALID
) usage(argv
[0]);
set_interrupt_status(irq_status
, file
);