1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)lpr.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 06/30/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt LPR 1 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm lpr 13.Nd off line print 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm lpr 16.Oo 17.Op Fl P Ar printer 18.Op Fl \&# Ar num 19.Oo 20.Op Fl C Ar class 21.Op Fl J Ar job 22.Op Fl T Ar title 23.Op Fl U Ar user 24.Op Fl i Op Ar numcols 25.Op Fl 1234 Ar font 26.Oo 27.Op Fl w Ar num 28.Oo 29.Op Fl pltndgvcfrmhs 30.Op Ar name ... 31.Oo 32.Sh DESCRIPTION 33.Nm Lpr 34uses a spooling daemon to print the named files when facilities 35become available. If no names appear, the standard input is assumed. 36.Fl P 37option may be used to force output to a specific printer. Normally, 38the default printer is used (site dependent), or the value of the 39environment variable 40.Ev PRINTER 41is used. 42.Pp 43The following single letter options are used to notify the line printer 44spooler that the files are not standard text files. The spooling daemon will 45use the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly. 46.Tw Fl 47.Tp Fl p 48Use 49.Xr pr 1 50to format the files (equivalent to 51.Em print ) . 52.Tp Fl l 53Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and suppresses 54page breaks. 55.Tp Fl t 56The files are assumed to contain data from 57.Xr troff 1 58(cat phototypesetter commands). 59.Tp Fl n 60The files are assumed to contain data from 61.Em ditroff 62(device independent troff). 63.Tp Fl d 64The files are assumed to contain data from 65.Em tex 66(DVI format from Stanford). 67.Tp Fl g 68The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by the 69.Xr plot 70routines (see also 71.Xr plot 72for the filters used by the printer spooler). 73.Tp Fl v 74The files are assumed to contain a raster image for devices like the 75Benson Varian. 76.Tp Fl c 77The files are assumed to contain data produced by 78.Xr cifplot 1 79.Tp Fl f 80Use a filter which interprets the first character of each line as a 81standard FORTRAN carriage control character. 82.Tp 83.Pp 84The remaining single letter options have the following meaning. 85.Tw Fl 86.Tp Fl r 87Remove the file upon completion of spooling or upon completion of 88printing (with the 89.Fl s 90option). 91The 92.Fl s 93option will use 94.Xr symlink 2 95to link data files rather than trying to copy them so large files can be 96printed. This means the files should 97not be modified or removed until they have been printed. 98.Tp Fl m 99Send mail upon completion. 100.Tp Fl h 101Suppress the printing of the burst page. 102.Tp Fl s 103Use symbolic links. Usually files are copied to the spool directory. 104.Tp Fl C 105Uses the following argument as a job classification 106for use on the burst page. For example, 107.Pp 108.Dl lpr \-C EECS foo.c 109.Pp 110causes the system name (the name returned by 111.Xr hostname 1 ) 112to be replaced on the burst page by EECS, 113and the file foo.c to be printed. 114.Tp Fl J 115Uses the following argument as the job name to print on the burst page. 116Normally, the first file's name is used. 117.Tp Fl U 118Uses the following argument as the user name to print on the burst page, 119and for accounting purposes. 120This option is only honored if the real user-id is daemon 121(or that specified in the printcap file instead of daemon), 122and is intended for those instances where print filters wish to requeue jobs. 123.Tp Fl T 124Uses the next argument as the title used by 125.Xr pr 1 126instead of the file name. 127.Tc Fl \&# 128.Ar num 129.Cx 130The quantity 131.Ar num 132is the number of copies desired of each file named. For example, 133.Pp 134.Dl lpr \-#3 foo.c bar.c more.c 135.Pp 136would result in 3 copies of the file foo.c, followed by 3 copies 137of the file bar.c, etc. On the other hand, 138.Pp 139.Dl cat foo.c bar.c more.c \&| lpr \-#3 140.Pp 141will give three copies of the concatenation of the files. 142.Tc Fl i 143.Ws 144.Op numcols 145.Cx 146The output is indented. If the next argument 147is numeric 148.Pf \&( Ar numcols ) , 149it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each 150line; otherwise, 8 characters are printed. 151.Tc Fl w 152.Ar num 153.Cx 154Uses 155.Ar num 156as the page width for 157.Xr pr 1 . 158.Tp Fl 1234 159Specifies a font to be mounted on font position 160.Ar i . 161The daemon 162will construct a 163.Li .railmag 164file referencing 165the font pathname. 166.Tp 167.Sh ENVIRONMENT 168If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 169.Nm lpr : 170.Tw Fl 171.Tp Ev PRINTER 172Specifies an alternate default printer. 173.Tp 174.Sh FILES 175.Dw /var/spool/output/*/tf* 176.Di L 177.Dp Pa /etc/passwd 178personal identification 179.Dp Pa /etc/printcap 180printer capabilities data base 181.Dp Pa /usr/sbin/lpd* 182line printer daemons 183.Dp Pa /var/spool/output/* 184directories used for spooling 185.Dp Pa /var/spool/output/*/cf* 186daemon control files 187.Dp Pa /var/spool/output/*/df* 188data files specified in "cf" files 189.Dp Pa /var/spool/output/*/tf* 190temporary copies of "cf" files 191.Dp 192.Sh SEE ALSO 193.Xr lpq 1 , 194.Xr lprm 1 , 195.Xr pr 1 , 196.Xr symlink 2 , 197.Xr printcap 5 , 198.Xr lpc 8 , 199.Xr lpd 8 200.Sh HISTORY 201.Nm Lpr 202appeared in 3 BSD. 203.Sh BUGS 204.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 205If you try to spool too large a file, it will be truncated. 206.Nm Lpr 207will object to printing binary files. 208If a user other than root prints a file and spooling is disabled, 209.Nm lpr 210will print a message saying so and will not put jobs in the queue. 211If a connection to 212.Xr lpd 1 213on the local machine cannot be made, 214.Nm lpr 215will say that the daemon cannot be started. 216Diagnostics may be printed in the daemon's log file 217regarding missing spool files by 218.Xr lpd 1 . 219.Sh BUGS 220Fonts for 221.Xr troff 1 222and 223.Xr tex 224reside on the host with the printer. It is currently not possible to 225use local font libraries. 226