> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> > A few weeks ago someone sent out an announcement that they were working
> > on a 1284 bidrectional parallel port driver. Could someone resend that
> > to me, please?
> >
> > There's a student in my department whose thesis depends on being able to
> > read printer status out from a HP printer. Thanks!!
>
> i've picked this URL up in linux-kernel recently:
>
> Linux Parallel Port Sharing Project
> http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html
>
> i'm not sure but it seems these patches do the status-read thing too?
They do, yes. It doesn't seem to work reliably on my LaserJet at the
moment, but your mileage may vary.
P.