On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:20:43PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> to start with, fall into parport_write anyway (it will just time out
As noted yesterday falling into parport_write will silenty lose data when the
printer is off.
If it's not feasible to make parport_write reliable against power-off
printer, then I recommend to loop in interruptible mode before entering the
main loop (waiting the printer to power-on) like in latest patch from Peter.
Andrea
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