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2.\" lptcontrol - a utility for manipulating the lpt driver
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14.\" $FreeBSD$
15.Dd September 3, 1994
16.Dt LPTCONTROL 8
17.Os FreeBSD 2
18.Sh NAME
19.Nm \&lptcontrol
20.Nd a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver
21.Sh SYNOPSIS
22.Nm \&lptcontrol
23.Cm -i
24|
25.Cm -p
26|
27.Cm -e
28|
29.Cm -s
30.Op Fl d Ar device
31.Sh DESCRIPTION
32The
33.Nm
34command is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended or polling mode
35of individual
36.Xr lpt 4
37devices.  When a printer is switched from
38a mode to another, this change will only take effect
39the next time the device is opened.
40.Pp
41Extended mode is anything the parallel port interface can support. For an
42ECP/ISA parallel port, it may be FIFO+DMA or ECP.
43.Sh OPTIONS
44.TP
45The following command line options are supported:
46.Bl -tag -width indent
47.It Fl i
48Turn on interrupt-driven mode.
49.It Fl p
50Turn on polled mode.
51.It Fl e
52Turn on extended mode.
53.It Fl s
54Turn on standard mode, i.e. turn off extended mode.
55.It Fl d Ar dev
56Set the mode of the printer device specified by
57.Em dev .
58The default value for
59.Em dev
60is
61.Em /dev/lpt0
62.El
63.Pp
64One of
65.Fl i
66,
67.Fl p
68or
69.Fl e
70must be specified.
71.Pp
72.Sh FILES
73.Bl -tag -width /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC -compact
74.It Pa /dev/lpt?
75Printer devices.
76.It Pa /dev/lpctl?
77Printer control devices.
78.It Pa /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
79Kernel configuration file.
80.El
81.Sh BUGS
82Sure to be some.
83.Sh "SEE ALSO"
84.Xr lpt 4
85.Sh AUTHORS
86.An Geoffrey M. Rehmet
87.Sh HISTORY
88.Nm Lptcontrol
89first appeared in
90.Fx 1.1.5
91