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LPTCONTROL (8) | System administration commands and daemons | Unix Manual Pages | :man▋
NAME
lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver
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SYNOPSIS
lptcontrol -e -| -i -| -p -| -s [-d control_device]
DESCRIPTION
The lptcontrol utility is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended, standard, or polling mode of individual lpt(4) devices. When a printer is switched from a mode to another, this change will only take effect the next time the device is opened. Extended mode is anything the parallel port interface can support. For an ECP/ISA parallel port, it may be FIFO+DMA or ECP. The following command line options are supported: | -e | Turn on extended mode. | | -i | Turn on interrupt-driven mode. | | -p | Turn on polled mode. | | -s | Turn on standard mode, i.e., turn off extended mode. | | -d control_device | | | Set the mode of the printer control device specified by control_device. The default value for control_device is /dev/lpt0.ctl. | |
One of -e -, -i -, -p or -s must be specified.
FILES
| /dev/lpt? | printer devices | | /dev/lpt?.ctl | printer control devices | | /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC | | | kernel configuration file | | /boot/device.hints | device hints for the parallel port chipset driver, ppc(4) | |
SEE ALSO
lpt(4), ppc(4), device.hints(5)
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