Re: [hpoj-devel] hpo bug (sane 1.0.4)

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Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth wrote in response to me:
> > Note that once you have the hpoj software running, you should print to
> > /dev/ptal-printd/XXXXXX ("XXXXXX" varies between hpoj-0.7 and hpoj-CVS)
> > instead of /dev/lp0.
> 
> Uh... OK.  Why?
Because /dev/lp0 goes directly to the parallel port, bypassing (and probably
conflicting with) ptal-mlcd, which is also trying to drive the parallel port.
The "ptal-printd" daemon, mentioned in PRINT-HOWTO, provides a similar
interface to /dev/lp0, although with a different path, and routes the print
job data through ptal-mlcd.

David