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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:47:30 -0500
From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
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Subject: Bidirectional /dev/lpt0
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I have a bidirectional parallel port, however FreeBSD does not want to let
me read data from it:
bash-2.02# cat </dev/lpt1
cat: stdin: Operation not supported by device

(there is a printer attached to it).

What am I doing wrong?

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David Cross


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