2 .\" lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver
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20 .Nd a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver
28 utility is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended or polling mode
32 When a printer is switched from
33 a mode to another, this change will only take effect
34 the next time the device is opened.
36 Extended mode is anything the parallel port interface can support.
38 ECP/ISA parallel port, it may be FIFO+DMA or ECP.
40 The following command line options are supported:
41 .Bl -tag -width indent
43 Turn on interrupt-driven mode.
47 Turn on extended mode.
49 Turn on standard mode, i.e. turn off extended mode.
51 Set the mode of the printer device specified by
65 .Bl -tag -width /sys/config/GENERIC -compact
69 printer control devices
70 .It Pa /sys/config/GENERIC
71 kernel configuration file
82 .An Geoffrey M. Rehmet