Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:45:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: onewnan@denitqm.ecte.uswc.uswest.com (Owen Newnan) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: slow parallel printing Message-ID: <199508011245.IAA01188@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <n1404910266.58056@denitqm.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> from "Owen Newnan" at Jul 31, 95 04:41:45 pm
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Owen Newnan writes: > I configured my printers using termcap pointing to /dev/lpt0 (parallel > interface). The Epson Stylus Color works, but two orders of magnitude > slower than under DOS. The HP LaserJet II just blinks. What gives? I don't know the answer, but I have used one system like that and by using lptcontrol to switch from interrupts to polled makes it usable but still not as fast as it should be. -- *** Net and mailer reconfig is going on @hda.com. Problems to hdslip@iii.net Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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