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1.1       root        1: .TH LP 4 
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: lp \- line printer
                      4: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      5: .I Lp
                      6: provides the interface to any of the standard
                      7: DEC line printers.
                      8: When it is opened or closed, a suitable number
                      9: of page ejects is generated.
                     10: Bytes written are printed.
                     11: .PP
                     12: An internal parameter within the driver determines
                     13: whether or not the device is treated as having
                     14: a 96- or 64-character set.
                     15: In half-ASCII mode, lower case letters are turned
                     16: into
                     17: upper case
                     18: and certain characters are escaped according to
                     19: the following table:
                     20: .PP
                     21: .br
                     22: .ns
                     23: .TP 10
                     24: {
                     25: \o"-("
                     26: .br
                     27: .ns
                     28: .TP 10
                     29: }
                     30: \o"-)"
                     31: .br
                     32: .ns
                     33: .TP 10
                     34: \`
                     35: \o"-\'"
                     36: .br
                     37: .ns
                     38: .TP 10
                     39: |
                     40: \o"\-!"
                     41: .br
                     42: .ns
                     43: .TP 10
                     44: ~
                     45: \o"\-^"
                     46: ..
                     47: .PP
                     48: The driver correctly interprets
                     49: carriage returns, backspaces, tabs, and form feeds.
                     50: A sequence of newlines which extends over the end of
                     51: a page is turned into a form feed.
                     52: Lines longer than 80 characters are truncated
                     53: (This is a parameter in the driver).
                     54: Another parameter allows indenting all printout
                     55: if it is unpleasantly near the left margin.
                     56: .SH FILES
                     57: /dev/lp
                     58: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     59: lpr(1)
                     60: .SH BUGS
                     61: Half-ASCII mode, the indent and the maximum line length should
                     62: be settable by an
                     63: .IR ioctl (2).

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