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1.1     ! root        1: .TH LPR 1 "28 July 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: lpr \- off line print
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B lpr
        !             7: [
        !             8: .BI \-P printer
        !             9: ] [
        !            10: .BI \-# num
        !            11: ] [
        !            12: .B \-C
        !            13: .I class
        !            14: ] [
        !            15: .B \-J
        !            16: .I job
        !            17: ] [
        !            18: .B \-T
        !            19: .I title
        !            20: ] [
        !            21: .B \-i
        !            22: [
        !            23: .I numcols
        !            24: ]] [
        !            25: .B \-1234
        !            26: .I font
        !            27: ] [
        !            28: .BI \-w num
        !            29: ] [
        !            30: .B \-pltndgvcfrmhs
        !            31: ] [
        !            32: name ...
        !            33: ]
        !            34: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            35: .B Lpr
        !            36: uses a spooling daemon to print the named files when facilities
        !            37: become available.  If no names appear, the standard input is assumed.
        !            38: The
        !            39: .B \-P
        !            40: option may be used to force output to a specific printer.  Normally,
        !            41: the default printer is used (site dependent), or the value of the
        !            42: environment variable PRINTER is used.
        !            43: .PP
        !            44: The following single letter options are used to notify the line printer
        !            45: spooler that the files are not standard text files. The spooling daemon will
        !            46: use the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly.
        !            47: .IP \fB\-p\fP 5
        !            48: Use
        !            49: .IR pr (1)
        !            50: to format the files (equivalent to
        !            51: .IR print ).
        !            52: .IP \fB\-l\fP 5
        !            53: Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and suppresses
        !            54: page breaks.
        !            55: .IP \fB\-t\fP 5
        !            56: The files are assumed to contain data from
        !            57: .IR troff (1)
        !            58: (cat phototypesetter commands).
        !            59: .IP \fB\-n\fP 5
        !            60: The files are assumed to contain data from
        !            61: .I ditroff
        !            62: (device independent troff).
        !            63: .IP \fB\-d\fP 5
        !            64: The files are assumed to contain data from
        !            65: .IR tex (l)
        !            66: (DVI format from Stanford).
        !            67: .IP \fB\-g\fP 5
        !            68: The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by the
        !            69: .IR plot (3X)
        !            70: routines (see also
        !            71: .IR plot (1G)
        !            72: for the filters used by the printer spooler).
        !            73: .IP \fB\-v\fP 5
        !            74: The files are assumed to contain a raster image for devices like the
        !            75: Benson Varian.
        !            76: .IP \fB\-c\fP 5
        !            77: The files are assumed to contain data produced by
        !            78: .IR cifplot (l).
        !            79: .IP \fB\-f\fP 5
        !            80: Use a filter which interprets the first character of each line as a
        !            81: standard FORTRAN carriage control character.
        !            82: .PP
        !            83: The remaining single letter options have the following meaning.
        !            84: .IP \fB\-r\fP 5
        !            85: Remove the file upon completion of spooling or upon completion of
        !            86: printing (with the \fB\-s\fP option).
        !            87: .IP \fB\-m\fP 5
        !            88: Send mail upon completion.
        !            89: .IP \fB\-h\fP 5
        !            90: Suppress the printing of the burst page.
        !            91: .IP \fB\-s\fP 5
        !            92: Use symbolic links.  Usually files are copied to the spool directory.
        !            93: .PP 
        !            94: The
        !            95: .B \-C
        !            96: option takes the following argument as a job classification
        !            97: for use on the burst page.  For example,
        !            98: .PP
        !            99: .ti +0.5i
        !           100: lpr \-C EECS foo.c
        !           101: .PP
        !           102: causes the system name (the name returned by
        !           103: .IR hostname (1))
        !           104: to be replaced on the burst page by EECS,
        !           105: and the file foo.c to be printed.
        !           106: .PP
        !           107: The
        !           108: .B \-J
        !           109: option takes the following argument as the job name to print on the burst page.
        !           110: Normally, the first file's name is used.
        !           111: .PP
        !           112: The
        !           113: .B \-T
        !           114: option uses the next argument as the title used by
        !           115: .IR pr (1)
        !           116: instead of the file name.
        !           117: .PP
        !           118: To get multiple copies of output, use the
        !           119: .BI \-# num
        !           120: option,
        !           121: where
        !           122: .I num
        !           123: is the number of copies desired of each file named.  For example,
        !           124: .PP
        !           125: .ti +0.5i
        !           126: lpr \-#3 foo.c bar.c more.c
        !           127: .PP
        !           128: would result in 3 copies of the file foo.c, followed by 3 copies
        !           129: of the file bar.c, etc.  On the other hand, 
        !           130: .PP
        !           131: .ti +0.5i
        !           132: cat foo.c bar.c more.c | lpr \-#3
        !           133: .PP
        !           134: will give three copies of the concatenation of the files.
        !           135: .PP
        !           136: The
        !           137: .B \-i
        !           138: option causes the output to be indented. If the next argument
        !           139: is numeric, it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each
        !           140: line; otherwise, 8 characters are printed.
        !           141: .PP
        !           142: The
        !           143: .B \-w
        !           144: option takes the immediately following number to be
        !           145: the page width for
        !           146: .IR pr .
        !           147: .PP
        !           148: The
        !           149: .B \-s
        !           150: option will use
        !           151: .IR symlink (2)
        !           152: to link data files rather than trying to copy them so large files can be
        !           153: printed.  This means the files should
        !           154: not be modified or removed until they have been printed.
        !           155: .PP
        !           156: The option
        !           157: .B \-1234
        !           158: Specifies a font to be mounted on font position \fIi\fR.  The daemon
        !           159: will construct a \fI.railmag\fR file referencing
        !           160: \fI/usr/lib/vfont/name.size\fR.
        !           161: .SH FILES
        !           162: .nf
        !           163: .ta \w'/usr/spool/*/cf*       'u
        !           164: /etc/passwd    personal identification
        !           165: /etc/printcap  printer capabilities data base
        !           166: /usr/lib/lpd*  line printer daemons
        !           167: /usr/spool/*   directories used for spooling
        !           168: /usr/spool/*/cf*       daemon control files
        !           169: /usr/spool/*/df*       data files specified in "cf" files
        !           170: /usr/spool/*/tf*       temporary copies of "cf" files
        !           171: .fi
        !           172: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           173: lpq(1),
        !           174: lprm(1),
        !           175: pr(1),
        !           176: symlink(2),
        !           177: printcap(5),
        !           178: lpc(8),
        !           179: lpd(8)
        !           180: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !           181: If you try to spool too large a file, it will be truncated.
        !           182: .I Lpr
        !           183: will object to printing binary files.
        !           184: If a user other than root prints a file and spooling is disabled,
        !           185: .I lpr
        !           186: will print a message saying so and will not put jobs in the queue.
        !           187: If a connection to
        !           188: .I lpd
        !           189: on the local machine cannot be made,
        !           190: .I lpr
        !           191: will say that the daemon cannot be started.
        !           192: Diagnostics may be printed in the daemon's log file
        !           193: regarding missing spool files by
        !           194: .IR lpd .
        !           195: .SH BUGS
        !           196: Fonts for
        !           197: .I troff
        !           198: and
        !           199: .I tex
        !           200: reside on the host with the printer. It is currently not possible to
        !           201: use local font libraries.

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