not really much i have to say on this but:ction, AFAIK. (??)
Or what about just lp?
Reminds of lineprinter, as in the default parallelport driver. It wouldn't disturb me much if it were called "lp" though.
there was an [lp] object in zexy, communicating with the parallelport. i have abandoned that name (in favour of [lpt]) since "lp" has its meaning in a musical signal-processing context: it is a LowPass.
i don't think we should interfere with these objects just for the sake of an abbreviation (this would make pd significantly less intuitive)
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