Now that i've finally got that lp driver to print on my inkspitter (= it
should work 100% on other parallel printers too) it's time to write some
userland tools. Since select(2) is said to be woring now i'd like to
know if anyone is interested in writing any of the tools mentioned in
subject ??? Or maybe help someone else (hint, hint, me) writing them ???
We already had lpd: deamon or no deamon discussion once but i think that
grabbing one process slot won't do _that_ much harm ?!?
And since serial is kinda working too some sort of terminal program
using select (= instead of using two precious process slots, thanks
Jacek :-))) would be nice too. This one is actually easier than any of
the printer tools - dumb terminal emulator is nothing more than sitting
on select() waiting for ttySx descriptor to change status and then
display the relevant information. Console will take care of
VT52/some-ANSI emulation.
Some sort of setserial would also be nice, this would help debugging
arch/i86/drivers/char/serial.c code. Jacek Lipkowski was woring on that
while ago but then dissapeared or something.
If anyone is interested in (writing some code, not babbling about) any
of those things please let me know so we won't reproduce each other's
work.
bye, Ab
