Copyright (C) 1998,1999 by Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>

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                                 This is

                             OOKKIIPPAAGGEE 44 LLIINNUUXX


    	    	A Linux / UNIX driver for the  okipage 4w oki 400w and 
    	    	    	okipage 4w plus GDI printers

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DESCRIPTION:

    This package contains all You will need to make successful use of those led
    line printers under Linux and maybe with some adaptations any other kind of
    UNIX alike system, which provides reasonable basic real time process
    support.  

    Yes! I did this, despite of many prominient Linux guys claiming that it
    would be impossible to do so. (Hint: Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds on
    linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu).  
    
    For the hacker's convenience I'm providing all the tools used during it's
    development too: 
    
    src/    	The source of the driver program itself. This is what the normal
    	    	user will need.
    
    crack/	The program used to reverse engine the protocol used to
    	    	provide the printer with image data.

REQUIREMENTS:
    
    This package needs (obviously) the GhostScript rendering engine to work.
    Second there where bogous workarounds for various inferior printers in late
    2.0 and early 2.2.x kernel. This lead to the fact that the printer used
    only to print some rester lines and hung. The 2.2.9 kernel appears to work
    fine for me.

    IN ANY CASE READ THE MANUAL PAGE FOR THIS DRIVER AND PLEASE BE WARNED!

    The manual page is oki4drv.8. You can invoke it by issuing:

    man oki4drv

    at the prompt after installation.

INSTALATION:

    cd src
    make
    make install

    The driver programm is oki4drv and it will be installed in /usr/sbin.

USAGE:

    RTFM. Read it really!
    
COPYRIGHT:

    Please have a look at the COPYING file in this distribution. This is the
    BSD license.
    
CONTACT:
    
    You can reach me at the following address: <dalecki@cs.net.pl>.
    My communication languges are pl_PL, de_DE, en_US and as a last
    ressort ru_RU.KOI8-R, in that order of precedence.

    --
    I wish you good luck!

    Marcin Dalecki