2 .\" lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver
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19 .Nd a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver
27 utility is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended or polling mode
31 When a printer is switched from
32 a mode to another, this change will only take effect
33 the next time the device is opened.
35 Extended mode is anything the parallel port interface can support.
37 ECP/ISA parallel port, it may be FIFO+DMA or ECP.
39 The following command line options are supported:
40 .Bl -tag -width indent
42 Turn on interrupt-driven mode.
46 Turn on extended mode.
48 Turn on standard mode, i.e. turn off extended mode.
50 Set the mode of the printer device specified by
64 .Bl -tag -width /sys/config/X86_64_GENERIC -compact
68 printer control devices
69 .It Pa /sys/config/X86_64_GENERIC
70 kernel configuration file
81 .An Geoffrey M. Rehmet