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39.Dd July 12, 1998
40.Dt ULPT 4
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm ulpt
44.Nd USB printer support
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "device ulpt"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides support for USB printers that follow the printer
51bi- or uni-directional protocol.
52The bits in the minor number select various features of the driver.
53.Bl -column "Minor Bit" "Functionxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" -offset indent
54.Em "Minor Bit	Function"
5564	Do not initialize (reset) the device on the port.
56.El
57.Pp
58Some printers cannot handle the reset on open; in case of problems try the
59.Pa unlpt
60device.
61.Sh FILES
62.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/unlpt?" -compact
63.It Pa /dev/ulpt?
64device with reset
65.It Pa /dev/unlpt?
66device without reset
67.El
68.Sh SEE ALSO
69.Xr lpt 4 ,
70.Xr usb 4
71.Sh HISTORY
72The
73.Nm
74driver
75appeared in
76.Nx 1.4 .
77This manual page was adopted from
78.Nx
79by
80.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org
81in April 2002.
82