On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 3:43 PM ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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