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["Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

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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