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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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        !            24: .TH PPI 4 "June 29, 1990"
        !            25: .UC 7
        !            26: .SH NAME
        !            27: ppi \- HPIB printer/plotter interface
        !            28: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            29: .B "device ppi0 at hpib0 slave 5"
        !            30: .PP
        !            31: .B "crw-rw-rw-  1 root      11,   0 Dec 21 11:22 /dev/ppi"
        !            32: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            33: The ppi interface provides a means of communication with HP-IB
        !            34: printers and plotters.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: Special files
        !            37: .I ppi0
        !            38: through
        !            39: .I ppi7
        !            40: are used to access the devices, with the digit at the end
        !            41: of the filename referring to the bus address of the device.
        !            42: Current versions of the autoconf code can not probe for these
        !            43: devices, so the device entry in the configuration file must be
        !            44: fully qualified.
        !            45: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            46: None.
        !            47: .SH BUGS
        !            48: This driver is very primitive, it handshakes data out byte by byte.
        !            49: It should use DMA if possible.
        !            50: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            51: hpib(4).

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