[cpia] Any FreeBSDers in here?

sbertin@mindspring.com sbertin@mindspring.com
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:59:05 -0500 (EST)


On 11 Feb, Alan Corey wrote:
> I don't know much C, and I've only written a half-dozen or so simple C 
> programs in the unix environment, but I'm wondering how close the parport 
> interface written for this might come to FreeBSD's built-in one.  Might 
> it be possible to use this client module with the FreeBSD interface after 
> some fairly minor changes?

I took a VERY brief look at the FreeBSD source code, and it looks like a
complete rewrite would be necessary.  Porting mcam
(http://www.panteltje.demon.nl/mcam/) would probably be much easier.

Scott J. Bertin
sbertin@mindspring.com