lptcontrol(8) - Manual pages

NAME

lptcontrol — a utility for manipulating the lpt printer driver

SYNOPSIS

lptcontrol -i | -p | -e | -s [-d device]

The lptcontrol utility is used to set either the interrupt-driven, extended or polling mode of individual lpt(4) devices. When a printer is switched from a mode to another, this change will only take effect the next time the device is opened.

Extended mode is anything the parallel port interface can support. For an ECP/ISA parallel port, it may be FIFO+DMA or ECP.

The following command line options are supported:

-i: Turn on interrupt-driven mode.
-p: Turn on polled mode.
-e: Turn on extended mode.
-s: Turn on standard mode, i.e. turn off extended mode.
-d device: Set the mode of the printer device specified by device. The default value for device is /dev/lpt0.