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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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