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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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