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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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                      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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