Re: Using printer and ppa Zip simultaneously

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From: Przemek Klosowski
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

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andre@incognito.com (Andre Kostur) writes:

> >I was told there was a HOWTO I could use to help me out but it was
> >woefully out of date.  It still said you had to switch between the print
> >and ppa modules.  Is there some way I could just print w/o castrating my
> >Zip and vice versa?
> 
> Take a look at
> 
> http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html
> 
> This has patches to 2.0.33 and 2.1.something.  I'm going to be installing it 
> tonight and see what happens...

Still, simultaneous printing and ZIPping doesn't work reliably, even using
manufacturer provided drivers (simultaneous meaning not just interleaved,
but literally mixing the printer and zip data streams.) 

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