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Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.\"
.Dd January 22, 1995
.Dt LP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm lp
.Nd front-end to the print spooler
.Sh SYNOPSIS
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
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.Nm
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.Op Fl cs
Add missing description for the dummy -o option.
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.Op Fl o Ar option
Use err(3). Add usage(). Various fixes in man pages.
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.Op Fl d Ar printer
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.Op Fl n Ar num
.Op Ar name ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Use `The .Nm utility'
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The
.Nm
utility is a front-end to the print spooler as required by the
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.St -p1003.2
specification. It effectively invokes
.Xr lpr 1
with the proper set of arguments.
Remove blanks lines, replacing them with Pp macros where appropriate.
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.Pp
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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It generally prints the named files on the destination printer.
.Pp
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The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl c
Make the
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.Nm
command exit only after further access to any of the input files is no
longer required. The application can then safely delete or modify the
files without affecting the output operation.
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.It Fl d Ar dest
Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.
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Specify a particular printer.
If no
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.Fl d
environmental -> environment.
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is provided on the command line, the contents of the environment
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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variables
.Ev LPDEST
or
.Ev PRINTER
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(with this precedence)
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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are taken as the destination printer.
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.It Fl n Ar num
Specify that
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.Ar num
copies of each of the named files shall be printed.
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.It Fl o Ar option
Printer specific options.
Not supported, provided only as a compatibility
option for SVR.
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.It Fl s
Silent operation.
Not supported,
provided only as a compatibility option for
.St -susv2 .
Use err(3). Add usage(). Various fixes in man pages.
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.El
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
As described above, the variables
.Ev LPDEST
and
.Ev PRINTER
are examined to select the destination printer.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr lpr 1
.Sh STANDARDS
The
Use err(3). Add usage(). Various fixes in man pages.
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.Nm
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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command is expected to comply with the
.St -p1003.2
specification.
.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq.
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.Sh AUTHORS
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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This implementation of the
.Nm
command has been written by
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
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.An J\(:org Wunsch .
Implementing the "lp" command. This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with the proper options.
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.Sh BUGS
The
.St -p1003.2
specification does not provide any means to print non-text files. It
rather requires the files to be printed to be text files limited to
reasonable line lengths and printable characters.
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