Re: [semi-offtopic] Linux 2.2 Changes ('really final' version)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:38:49 -0300

In message <6qvnfr$pjd$1@sh1.ro.com>, Chris Adams writes:
+-----
| If there wasn't a parallel port driver in 2.0, what do all of our
| printers talk to? My printer hooks up to a parallel port, and I can use
+--->8

You just answered your own question. It's a *printer* driver which has a
parallel port driver built into it. This has some unfortunate effects when
the device attached to the parallel port isn't a printer.

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