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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:42:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bidirectional /dev/lpt0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811101441460.2215-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811101345360.818-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu>

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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, David E. Cross wrote:

> 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?

The lpt device driver does not support reading.  The hardware might take
it but the system cannot.

Doug White                               
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