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authorschweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>2004-10-01 20:04:20 +0000
committerschweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>2004-10-01 20:04:20 +0000
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General overhaul:
- Makefile: WARNS=6 - man page: sort options, better xrefs, informative BUGS section - C source: proper option parsing, use printer control (.ctl) device, removed heaps of bit rot, style(9) cleanup, WARNS=6 cleanup. Prodded by: joerg
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
-.Dd September 3, 1994
+.Dd October 1, 2004
.Dt LPTCONTROL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
.Nd a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Fl i | p | e | s
-.Op Fl d Ar device
+.Fl e | i | p | s
+.Op Fl d Ar control_device
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-utility is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended or polling mode
-of individual
+utility is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended, standard,
+or polling mode of individual
.Xr lpt 4
devices.
When a printer is switched from
@@ -38,27 +38,27 @@ ECP/ISA parallel port, it may be FIFO+DMA or ECP.
.Pp
The following command line options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fl e
+Turn on extended mode.
.It Fl i
Turn on interrupt-driven mode.
.It Fl p
Turn on polled mode.
-.It Fl e
-Turn on extended mode.
.It Fl s
Turn on standard mode, i.e., turn off extended mode.
-.It Fl d Ar device
-Set the mode of the printer device specified by
-.Ar device .
+.It Fl d Ar control_device
+Set the mode of the printer control device specified by
+.Ar control_device .
The default value for
-.Ar device
+.Ar control_device
is
-.Pa /dev/lpt0 .
+.Pa /dev/lpt0.ctl .
.El
.Pp
One of
-.Fl i , p
+.Fl e , i , p
or
-.Fl e
+.Fl s
must be specified.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC -compact
@@ -68,11 +68,18 @@ printer devices
printer control devices
.It Pa /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
kernel configuration file
+.It Pa /boot/device.hints
+Device hints for the parallel port chipset driver,
+.Xr ppc 4
.El
.Sh BUGS
-Sure to be some.
+The control device name should never have been an option,
+but should have been an optional argument.
+Because of this, a single argument is treated as a device name.
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr lpt 4
+.Xr lpt 4 ,
+.Xr ppc 4 ,
+.Xr device.hints 5
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Geoffrey M. Rehmet
.Sh HISTORY
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