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6 foomatic-printjob - manage printer jobs in a spooler-independent fash‐
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10 foomatic-printjob [ -s spooler ] [ -P queuename ] [ -o option1=value1
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13 foomatic-printjob -Q [ -s spooler ] [ -P queuename ] [ -i ] [ -a ] [
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16 foomatic-printjob -R [ -s spooler ] [ -P queuename ] [ -i ] [ - |
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19 foomatic-printjob -C [ -s spooler ] [ -i ] command [ arguments ]
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21 foomatic-printjob -S [ -s spooler ] [ -i ]
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23 foomatic-printjob -h [ -s spooler ] [ -P queuename ] [ -i ]
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95 Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> and Chris Lawrence
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105Foomatic Project 2001-01-06 FOOMATIC-PRINTJOB(1)