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+Hello,
+
+In theory the driver could be made to send the DEC the reset sequence when
+all devices were closed.  However, due to the awkwardness of switching
+between slave and stand-alone mode, I've decided against this.  Hence this
+application, which I hope provides the user a nice compromise between
+control and ease-of-use.
+
+ttusb_dec_reset is a small utility for resetting a ttusb-dec device to
+stand-alone mode after use.  It requires libusb, which can be found here:
+
+http://libusb.sourceforge.net/
+
+There is probably a package for it included with your linux distribution
+though.
+
+For the utility to reset a device, it must have permission to access the usb
+device, and the device must not be claimed by anything else.  That means that
+the ttusb-dec module must be rmmoded before using this utility.  You probably
+want to have turned off any hotplug mechanisms before running the utility
+or the device will likely get taken over again once it comes back up.  Or you
+could just yank the usb cable out.
+
+The utility takes no arguments, you just run it:
+./ttusb_dec_reset
+
+Cheers,
+Alex