On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 3:43 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 2020-11-01 12:39, Doug McGarrett wrote: > >>> I don't think it's originally a windows term. It's actually "LPT > >>> #1", similar to the following "Serial Port #1". "LPT" stands for > >>> "line printer" for those of us old enough to remember when printers > >>> could only do lines of text. > >> > >> I wonder what it was called back in the UNIX days? > > According to The Waite Group's UNIX Primer Plus, Second Edition, it was > > called lpr, for line printer. > > ISTR that on my Xenix boxes, the parallel ports were lp0, lp1, etc, and the default printer was lpr, (regardless of whether it was a parallel printer, or serial printer) and was symlinked to the appropriate port
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