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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)lpq.1       6.4 (Berkeley) 4/30/87
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH LPQ 1 "April 30, 1987"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: lpq \- spool queue examination program
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B lpq
        !            13: [ -l ] [ \-Pprinter ] [ job # ... ] [ user ... ]
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I lpq
        !            16: examines the spooling area used by
        !            17: .IR lpd (8)
        !            18: for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the
        !            19: specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user.  \fIlpq\fP invoked
        !            20: without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue.  A
        !            21: .B \-P
        !            22: flag may be used to specify a particular printer, otherwise the default
        !            23: line printer is used (or the value of the PRINTER variable in the
        !            24: environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user
        !            25: names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of 
        !            28: .IR lpr (1))
        !            29: .I lpq
        !            30: reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the
        !            31: names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which
        !            32: may be supplied to
        !            33: .IR lprm (1)
        !            34: for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes.
        !            35: The
        !            36: .B \-l
        !            37: option causes information about each of the files comprising the job
        !            38: to be printed.
        !            39: Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed.
        !            40: Job ordering is dependent on
        !            41: the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed
        !            42: to be FIFO (First in First Out).
        !            43: File names comprising a job may be unavailable
        !            44: (when
        !            45: .IR lpr (1)
        !            46: is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file
        !            47: is indicated as ``(standard input)".
        !            48: .PP
        !            49: If
        !            50: .I lpq
        !            51: warns that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunction),
        !            52: the
        !            53: .IR lpc (8)
        !            54: command can be used to restart the printer daemon.
        !            55: .SH FILES
        !            56: .nf
        !            57: .ta \w'/etc/termcap            'u
        !            58: /etc/termcap   for manipulating the screen for repeated display
        !            59: /etc/printcap  to determine printer characteristics
        !            60: /usr/spool/*   the spooling directory, as determined from printcap
        !            61: /usr/spool/*/cf*       control files specifying jobs
        !            62: /usr/spool/*/lock      the lock file to obtain the currently active job 
        !            63: .fi
        !            64: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            65: lpr(1),
        !            66: lprm(1),
        !            67: lpc(8),
        !            68: lpd(8)
        !            69: .SH BUGS
        !            70: Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory
        !            71: lpq may report unreliably.
        !            72: Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal;
        !            73: this can results in widely spaced columns.
        !            74: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            75: Unable to open various files.  The lock file being malformed.  Garbage
        !            76: files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory.

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