Re: Epson GT-5000 (parallel port)

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:50:04 +0100 (GMT)

On 4 Apr 1999, Oliver Graf wrote:

> All parallel scanners require a hexadecimal portnumber as
> configuration. (0x378 0x278 0x3bc or whatever your port is set to)

Incidentally, it would be nice if backend maintainers for parallel port
scanners would take a look at a device driver I have for user access to
the port. It's /dev/parport, effectively.

The advantages of using /dev/parport are: no need to be root (file access
permissions on device node), ability to share the port with other devices
(for instance, a Zip drive with a pass-through port), potential for
working on architectures other than PC.

<ftp://ftp.torque.net/pub/parport/ppuser-0.8.tar.gz>

Note that this is a work in progress, so if you don't like how it works,
let me know of a better way. ;-)

Thanks,
Tim.
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