applications like gutenprint (escputil)
use a raw device file to access e. g.
USB printers. On Linux, this would be
something like /dev/usb/lp0.
Under Mac OS X (10.3 at least) there are
no such files in the /dev folder.
Is there a way to create such files
with mknod? (The man page refers to a
/dev/MAKEDEV script which is not present
on my system)
I looked through some developer pages,
but found only references to the device
patch in the IOUSB plane or the IOService
plane. For my printer those would be
Perhaps it is possible to use some of
that information, or from the IORegistry,
in order to create the special file?
Curious,
Hanno
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