Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Bryan Meredith wrote:
>
> > I'll just go for a plain uni-directional port for now (pending
> > comments).
>
> Will you be talking to the parallel port hardware directly, or using
> /dev/lp*, or using /dev/parport*?
>
> Tim.
> */
Actually, being as the emulation sits in user space, I was going to pipe
the data bytes in batches into lpr (via fork, exec).
That way, I am using the highest level abstraction and will get the
various benfits from having the magic filters supporting the output.
This gives the option of setting the guest OS to use a postscript
driver, a plain text driver or even the correct driver for your printer.
Bryan
