tunelp Command Examples

Set various parameters for parallel port devices for troubleshooting or for better performance. Part of util-linux. More information: https://manned.org/tunelp.

• Check the status of a parallel port device:

tunelp {{[-s|--status]}} {{/dev/lp0}}

• Reset a given parallel port:

tunelp {{[-r|--reset]}} {{/dev/lp0}}

• Use a given IRQ for a device, each one representing an interrupt line:

tunelp {{[-i|--irq]}} 5 {{/dev/lp0}}

• Try a given number of times to output a character to the printer before sleeping for a given time:

tunelp {{[-c|--chars]}} {{times}} {{[-t|--time]}} {{time_in_centiseconds}} {{/dev/lp0}}

• Enable or disable aborting on error (disabled by default):

tunelp {{[-a|--abort]}} {{on|off}}