lptcontrol.8 revision 21673
lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver
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$FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/lptcontrol/lptcontrol.8 21673 1997-01-14 07:20:47Z jkh $
.Dd September 3, 1994 .Dt LPTCONTROL 8 .Os FreeBSD 2 .Sh NAME .Nm lptcontrol .Nd a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver. .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm lptcontrol .Cm -i | .Cm -p .Op Fl u Ar unit no .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm lptcontrol command is used to set either the interrupt-driven or polling mode of individual .Xr lpt 4 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. .Sh OPTIONS
lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
$FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/lptcontrol/lptcontrol.8 21673 1997-01-14 07:20:47Z jkh $
.Dd September 3, 1994 .Dt LPTCONTROL 8 .Os FreeBSD 2 .Sh NAME .Nm lptcontrol .Nd a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver. .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm lptcontrol .Cm -i | .Cm -p .Op Fl u Ar unit no .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm lptcontrol command is used to set either the interrupt-driven or polling mode of individual .Xr lpt 4 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. .Sh OPTIONS
The following command line options are supported: l -tag -width indent t Fl i Turns on interrupt-driven mode. t Fl p Turns on polled mode. t Fl u Ar n Sets the mode of the printer device specified by .Em n . The default value for .Em n is .Em 0 (ie. /dev/lpt0) .El
p One of .Fl i or .Fl p must be specified.
p .Sh FILES l -tag -width indent -compact t Pa /dev/lpt? - printer devices t Pa /dev/lpctl? - printer control devices t Pa /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC - kernel configuration file .El .Sh BUGS Sure to be some. .Sh "SEE ALSO" .Xr lpt 4 .Sh AUTHOR Geoffrey M. Rehmet .Sh HISTORY .Nm lptcontrol first appeared in FreeBSD 1.1.5