1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)lp.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/05/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt LP 4 vax 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm lp 13.Nd line printer 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Cd "device lp0 at uba0 csr 0177514 vector lpintr" 16.Sh DESCRIPTION 17The 18.Nm lp 19device 20supports 21.Tn DEC 22and 23.Tn DEC 24compatible printers 25on the 26.Tn LP-11 27parallel interface. 28.Pp 29The unit number of the printer is specified by the minor device 30after removing the low 3 bits, which act as per-device parameters. 31Currently only the lowest of the low three bits is interpreted: 32if it is set, the device is assumed to have a 64-character set or 33.Pf half Tn -ASCII 34mode, 35rather than a full 96-character set. 36.Pp 37If the 64-character set is assumed, 38any lower case characters are mapped to upper case; left curly and 39right curly braces are mapped to left and right parentheses over 40laid with a hyphen; grave accents are mapped to acute accents 41with overlaid with a hyphen; the pipe bar character is mapped 42to an exclamation sign overlaid with a hyphen; and the tilde 43character is mapped to a carat overlaid with a hyphen. 44.Pp 45The default page width is 132 columns; longer lines are 46truncated. 47This may be overridden by specifying, for example, 48.Ql flags 256 . 49.Sh FILES 50.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact 51.It Pa /dev/lp 52.El 53.Sh SEE ALSO 54.Xr lpr 1 55.Sh HISTORY 56A 57.Nm 58driver appeared in 59.At v6 . 60