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6 lpr - off line print
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9 lpr [ -Pprinter ] [ -#num ] [ -C class ] [ -J job ] [ -T title ] [ -i [
10 numcols ]] [ -1234 font ] [ -wnum ] [ -pltndgvcfrmhs ] [ name ... ]
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13 Lpr uses a spooling daemon to print the named files when facilities
14 become available. If no names appear, the standard input is assumed.
15 The -P option may be used to force output to a specific printer. Nor‐
16 mally, the default printer is used (site dependent), or the value of
17 the environment variable PRINTER is used.
18 The following single letter options are used to notify the line printer
20 spooler that the files are not standard text files. The spooling daemon
21 will use the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly.
22 -p Use pr(1) to format the files (equivalent to print).
24 -l Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and
26 suppresses page breaks.
27 -t The files are assumed to contain data from troff(1) (cat photo‐
29 typesetter commands).
30 -n The files are assumed to contain data from ditroff (device inde‐
32 pendent troff).
33 -d The files are assumed to contain data from tex(l) (DVI format from
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36 -g The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by
38 the plot(3X) routines (see also plot(1G) for the filters used by
39 the printer spooler).
40 -v The files are assumed to contain a raster image for devices like
42 the Benson Varian.
43 -c The files are assumed to contain data produced by cifplot(l).
45 -f Use a filter which interprets the first character of each line as
47 a standard FORTRAN carriage control character.
48 The remaining single letter options have the following meaning.
50 -r Remove the file upon completion of spooling or upon completion of
52 printing (with the -s option).
53 -m Send mail upon completion.
55 -h Suppress the printing of the burst page.
57 -s Use symbolic links. Usually files are copied to the spool direc‐
59 tory.
60 The -C option takes the following argument as a job classification for
62 use on the burst page. For example,
63 lpr -C EECS foo.c
65 causes the system name (the name returned by hostname(1)) to be
67 replaced on the burst page by EECS, and the file foo.c to be printed.
68 The -J option takes the following argument as the job name to print on
70 the burst page. Normally, the first file's name is used.
71 The -T option uses the next argument as the title used by pr(1) instead
73 of the file name.
74 To get multiple copies of output, use the -#num option, where num is
76 the number of copies desired of each file named. For example,
77 lpr -#3 foo.c bar.c more.c
79 would result in 3 copies of the file foo.c, followed by 3 copies of the
81 file bar.c, etc. On the other hand,
82 cat foo.c bar.c more.c | lpr -#3
84 will give three copies of the concatenation of the files.
86 The -i option causes the output to be indented. If the next argument is
88 numeric, it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each
89 line; otherwise, 8 characters are printed.
90 The -w option takes the immediately following number to be the page
92 width for pr.
93 The -s option will use symlink(2) to link data files rather than trying
95 to copy them so large files can be printed. This means the files
96 should not be modified or removed until they have been printed.
97 The option -1234 Specifies a font to be mounted on font position i.
99 The daemon will construct a .railmag file referencing
100 /usr/share/vfont/name.size.
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103 /etc/passwd personal identification
104 /etc/printcap printer capabilities data base
105 /usr/sbin/lpd line printer daemon
106 /usr/spool/* directories used for spooling
107 /usr/spool/*/cf* daemon control files
108 /usr/spool/*/df* data files specified in "cf" files
109 /usr/spool/*/tf* temporary copies of "cf" files
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112 lpq(1), lprm(1), pr(1), symlink(2), printcap(5), lpc(8), lpd(8)
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115 If you try to spool too large a file, it will be truncated. Lpr will
116 object to printing binary files. If a user other than root prints a
117 file and spooling is disabled, lpr will print a message saying so and
118 will not put jobs in the queue. If a connection to lpd on the local
119 machine cannot be made, lpr will say that the daemon cannot be started.
120 Diagnostics may be printed in the daemon's log file regarding missing
121 spool files by lpd.
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124 Fonts for troff and tex reside on the host with the printer. It is cur‐
125 rently not possible to use local font libraries.
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