primax@linuxhacker.org

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Hi everybody,

I used the last days and ported the libprimax to the libieee1284. This is a 
portable library for parallel port access. 
More information at : http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/ 

It currently supports Linux, Windows!, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris. so now 
all these platforms are supported by the primax driver.

The Linux 2.4.x Kernel have ann internal parallel port layer. This is also 
used if available. It is possible to use the driver as non-root user - 
because there is an character device /dev/parportx where you can set 
permissions.
Additionally it got a great performance boost. I measured that is 2 times as 
fast as before ( with 300 dpi ).

At the moment it is only in the CVS. I will soon create a tar archive, when I 
finished the documentation. 

For all who cannot wait:
* install the libieee1284 from the above location
* get the latest version from the CVS
* compile it, run it, be impressed ;-).

Andre


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Andre Herms                   mailto:aherms@cs.uni-magdeburg.de
                              http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aherms
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