.\" lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver
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.TH lptcontrol 1 "March 12, 1994" "" "FreeBSD"
lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver.
command is used to set either the interrupt-driven or polling mode
of individual lpt devices. When a printer is switched between
interrupt-driven and polled mode, this change will only take effect
the next time the device is opened.
The following command line options are supported.
Turns on interrupt-driven mode.
Sets the mode of the printer device specified by
If the port to be controlled does not have a printer connected and
on-line, then lptcontrol will not be able to open the port in question
for performing ioctl's and will fail.
.BR /sys/i386/conf/GENERICAH