Re: The stability storm in a tea cup

Tim Waugh (twaugh@matra.co.uk)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:45:31 +0100


Jes wrote:

> Dominik> Wouldn't it be nice if we could define a line printer as
> Dominik> secondary console? (Those of you still remembering the old
> Dominik> teletype terminals know what i mean.) Then one could simply
> Dominik> attach an old spare dot-matrix printer to a free parallel
> Dominik> port and have an instant hardcopy of any oopsen that might
> Dominik> occur...
>
> Linux/m68k will actually do this, it should be fairly simple to hack
> something like this for the 8255 style parallel port.

<URL:ftp://ftp.torque.net/pub/parport/patch-2.2.10-tmw1.gz> does this, and
2.3.10/11 will too, I hope.

Tim.
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