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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed
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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

by Bill Ball, David Pitts
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
Sams
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Printer Devices

Under Linux, each piece of your computer's hardware is abstracted to a device file (hopefully with an accompanying device driver in the kernel; see Chapter 18, "Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices," for more details). Printer devices, traditionally named after line printers, are character mode devices and will be found in the /dev directory. Some of these devices, along with the traditional hardware port assignments, are shown in Table 19.1.

Table 19.1. Parallel Printer Devices
Device Name Printer Address
/dev/lp0 First parallel printer 0x3bc
/dev/lp1 Second parallel printer 0x378
/dev/lp2 Third parallel printer 0x278

Serial printers are assigned to serial devices, such as /dev/ttySX, where X is a number from 0 to 3. Quite ...

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