Dave Huang wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > The parallel port kind of works if I do a cat - >/dev/lpt0, but if I
> > set it up in /etc/printcap the PC crashes whenever something is
> > printing.  I've checked that the port is set for irq 7 and is opened
> > bidirectionally (:rw:).  There are four modes in the BIOS for the
> > port and mostly I've been using compatable.  I did take a spin
> > through the other three and I didn't seem to matter.
> 
> Try using /dev/lpa0 instead (polled, rather than interrupt-driven). I
> haven't had much luck using lpt...
>

I concur.  I've never had much luck with the lpt devices.

On the other hand, sending a print job to the lpt device still 
shouldn't crash the system.  What are you using for the 'lpd' program?