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1.1       root        1: .TH LPQ 1 "18 July 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: lpq \- spool queue examination program
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B lpq
                      7: [ +[ n ] ] [ -l ] [ \-Pprinter ] [ job # ... ] [ user ... ]
                      8: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      9: .I lpq
                     10: examines the spooling area used by
                     11: .IR lpd (8)
                     12: for printing
                     13: files on the line printer, and reports the status of the specified jobs or
                     14: all jobs associated with a user. 
                     15: .I lpq
                     16: invoked without any arguments
                     17: reports on any jobs currently in the queue.  A
                     18: .B \-P
                     19: flag may be used
                     20: to specify a particular printer, otherwise the default line printer
                     21: is used (or the value of the PRINTER variable in the environment).
                     22: If a
                     23: .B \+
                     24: argument is supplied,
                     25: .I lpq
                     26: displays the spool queue until it empties.  Supplying a number
                     27: immediately after the
                     28: .B \+
                     29: sign indicates that
                     30: .I lpq
                     31: should sleep \fIn\fR seconds in between scans of the queue.
                     32: All other arguments supplied are
                     33: interpreted as user names or job numbers to filter out only those
                     34: jobs of interest.
                     35: .PP
                     36: For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of 
                     37: .IR lpr (1))
                     38: .I lpq
                     39: reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the
                     40: names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which
                     41: may be supplied to
                     42: .IR lprm (1)
                     43: for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes.
                     44: The
                     45: .B \-l
                     46: option causes information about each of the files comprising the job
                     47: to be printed.
                     48: Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed.
                     49: Job ordering is dependent on
                     50: the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed
                     51: to be FIFO (First in First Out).
                     52: File names comprising a job may be unavailable
                     53: (when
                     54: .IR lpr (1)
                     55: is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file
                     56: is indicated as ``(standard input)".
                     57: .PP
                     58: If
                     59: .I lpq
                     60: warns that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunction),
                     61: the
                     62: .IR lpc (8)
                     63: command can be used to restart the printer daemon.
                     64: .SH FILES
                     65: .nf
                     66: .ta \w'/etc/termcap            'u
1.1.1.2 ! root       67: /etc/termcap        for manipulating the screen for
        !            68:                     repeated display
        !            69: /etc/printcap       to determine printer characteristics
        !            70: /usr/spool/*        the spooling directory, as determined
        !            71:                     from printcap
        !            72: /usr/spool/*/cf*    control files specifying jobs
        !            73: /usr/spool/*/lock   the lock file to obtain the currently
        !            74:                     active job 
1.1       root       75: .fi
                     76: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     77: lpr(1),
                     78: lprm(1),
                     79: lpc(8),
                     80: lpd(8)
                     81: .SH BUGS
                     82: Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory
                     83: lpq may report unreliably.
                     84: Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal;
1.1.1.2 ! root       85: this can result in widely spaced columns.
1.1       root       86: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     87: Unable to open various files.  The lock file being malformed.  Garbage
                     88: files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory.

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