Annotation of researchv10dc/man/mana/ican.1, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .TH ICAN 1 
                      2: .CT 1 writing_output comm_dev
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: ican, ibcan, idcan, itcan \- interface to Imagen laser-printer spooler
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B ican
                      7: [
                      8: .I option ...
                      9: ]
                     10: [
                     11: .I file ...
                     12: ]
                     13: .PP
                     14: .B ibcan
                     15: [
                     16: .I option ...
                     17: ]
                     18: [
                     19: .I file ...
                     20: ]
                     21: .PP
                     22: .B idcan
                     23: [
                     24: .I option ...
                     25: ]
                     26: [
                     27: .I file ...
                     28: ]
                     29: .PP
                     30: .B itcan
                     31: [
                     32: .I option ...
                     33: ]
                     34: [
                     35: .I file ...
                     36: ]
                     37: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     38: These commands print 
                     39: .I files
                     40: (standard input by default) on Imagen laser printers.
                     41: The four commands
                     42: handle particular kinds of data files:
                     43: .TP
                     44: .I ican
                     45: ASCII text
                     46: .TP
                     47: .I ibcan
                     48: bitmap images created by 
                     49: .IR blitblt (9.1)
                     50: .TP
                     51: .I idcan
                     52: output from
                     53: .IR troff (1)
                     54: .TP
                     55: .I itcan
                     56: output for a Tektronix 4014 terminal, as produced by
                     57: .IR plot (1)
                     58: .PP
                     59: The destination printer is determined in the following ways,
                     60: listed in order of decreasing precedence.
                     61: .IP
                     62: option
                     63: .B -d
                     64: .I dest
                     65: .br
                     66: environment variable
                     67: .L ICANDEST
                     68: .br
                     69: printer named in file
                     70: .F /etc/icandest
                     71: .LP
                     72: Printers at the mother site are:
                     73: .RS
                     74: .TP
                     75: .B 1
                     76: 1st floor, stair 8 (sid)
                     77: .PD0
                     78: .TP
                     79: .B 3
                     80: 3rd floor, stair 8 (shannon)
                     81: .TP
                     82: .B 5
                     83: 5th floor, 2C-5 (hunny)
                     84: .TP
                     85: .B j
                     86: 5th floor, 2D-5 (jones)
                     87: .TP
                     88: .BI / name
                     89: printer attached to machine with Datakit destination 
                     90: .I name
                     91: .RE
                     92: .PD
                     93: .PP
                     94: Options:
                     95: .PP
                     96: .TP
                     97: .BI -c " n"
                     98: Number of copies to be printed.
                     99: .TP
                    100: .BI -d " dest"
                    101: Select the destination printer.
                    102: .TP
                    103: .BI -f " font"
                    104: Set the font (default
                    105: .LR CW.11 )
                    106: for
                    107: .IR can ;
                    108: see 
                    109: .IR font (7).
                    110: .TP
                    111: .B -L
                    112: (landscape) Rotate
                    113: .I ibcan 
                    114: pages 90 degrees.
                    115: .TP
                    116: .BI -l " n"
                    117: Set number of lines per page for
                    118: .I can
                    119: (default 66).
                    120: .TP
                    121: .BI -m " n"
                    122: Set 
                    123: .I ibcan
                    124: magnification to a power of 2,
                    125: where
                    126: .I n
                    127: = 0, 1, or 2
                    128: (default 1).
                    129: .TP
                    130: .BI -o " list"
                    131: Print only pages whose page numbers appear in
                    132: the comma-separated
                    133: .I list
                    134: of numbers and ranges.
                    135: A range
                    136: .IB n - m
                    137: means pages
                    138: .I n
                    139: through
                    140: .IR m ;
                    141: a range
                    142: .BI - b
                    143: means from the beginning to page
                    144: .IR n ;
                    145: a range
                    146: .IB n -
                    147: means from page
                    148: .I n
                    149: to the end. 
                    150: .B -o
                    151: implies
                    152: .BR -r .
                    153: .TP
                    154: .B -r
                    155: print
                    156: pages in reverse order
                    157: (default for 
                    158: .IR ican " and " idcan ).
                    159: .TP
                    160: .BI -u " user"
                    161: set the name which appears on the banner page;
                    162: default is login name.
                    163: .TP
                    164: .BI -x " n"
                    165: set the horizontal
                    166: offset of the print image, measured in dots (default 60).
                    167: There are 300 dots to the inch.
                    168: .TP
                    169: .BI -y " n"
                    170: set the vertical
                    171: offset of the print image (default 0),
                    172: except in
                    173: .I itcan,
                    174: where this option specifies
                    175: .I n
                    176: extra tekpoints vertically.
                    177: .SH FILES
                    178: .TF /usr/spool/lp
                    179: .TP
                    180: .F /etc/icandest
                    181: default destination
                    182: .PD0
                    183: .TP
                    184: .F /usr/lib/font/devi300
                    185: font directory
                    186: .TP
                    187: .F /usr/spool/lp
                    188: spool directory
                    189: .SH SEE ALSO
                    190: .IR pr (1), 
                    191: .IR blitblt (9.1), 
                    192: .IR plot (1), 
                    193: .IR font (7)
                    194: .SH BUGS
                    195: The `landscape' option is supported only by
                    196: .IR ibcan ;
                    197: .BR -o
                    198: is supported only by
                    199: .I ican
                    200: and
                    201: .I idcan.
                    202: .br
                    203: There ought to be a way to determine the service class from the input data.

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