Parallel Port transport add-on

[Philippe Houdoin]

Hi Michael,

how are you=3F

I'm fine. (Happy) New Year, you know...
For a start, I found again some time to work on OpenBeOS, which is
great for
my mind sanity.

Attached is my implementation of a transport add-on for
the parallel port. It's completely untested. As I don't have
atm a parallel printer anymore, I want to ask you if you could
test it and if it works, if you could commit it to the OBOS
repository.
Esp. check if the flags for open() are correct.

Okay, I've fixed my vanilla r5.0.3 system there, and tested this new
OBOS parallel port print transport add-on with my BJ-200 printer.

It didn't work, throwing a "can't open transport" BAlert.
After having changed the "printer=5Fname" BMessage string item name into
this stupid but binary compatible "printer=5Ffile", it works fine.

Good job, Michael, as always.

I run, during printing, an $ echo test > /dev/parallel/parallel1 and
get the expected
"busy", so the open() flags sounds corrects.

I'll commit this new transport add-on soon into CVS.

-Philippe


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[Michael Pfeiffer]

Post by Philippe Houdoin
I'll commit this new transport add-on soon into CVS.

Thanks,
Michael