Lpr
uses a spooling daemon to print the named files when facilities
become available. If no names appear, the standard input is assumed.
The following single letter options are used to notify the line printer
spooler that the files are not standard text files. The spooling daemon will
use the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly.
-tag -width indent
Fl c
The files are assumed to contain data produced by
cifplot 1
Fl d
The files are assumed to contain data from
tex
( Tn DVI
format from Stanford).
Fl f
Use a filter which interprets the first character of each line as a
standard
FORTRAN
carriage control character.
Fl g
The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by the
plot
routines (see also
plot
for the filters used by the printer spooler).
Fl l
Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and suppresses
page breaks.
Fl n
The files are assumed to contain data from
ditroff
(device independent troff).
Fl p
Use
pr 1
to format the files (equivalent to
print ) .
Fl t
The files are assumed to contain data from
troff 1
(cat phototypesetter commands).
Fl v
The files are assumed to contain a raster image for devices like the
Benson Varian.
These options apply to the handling of
the print job:
-tag -width indent
Fl P
Force output to a specific printer. Normally,
the default printer is used (site dependent), or the value of the
environment variable
PRINTER
is used.
Fl h
Suppress the printing of the burst page.
Fl m
Send mail upon completion.
Fl r
Remove the file upon completion of spooling. Can not be used
with the
s
option, due to security concerns.
Fl s
Use symbolic links. Usually files are copied to the spool directory.
The
s
option will use
symlink 2
to link data files rather than trying to copy them so large files can be
printed. This means the files should
not be modified or removed until they have been printed.
The remaining options apply to copies, the page display, and headers:
-tag -width indent
Fl # Ns Ar num
The quantity
num
is the number of copies desired of each file named. For example,
-literal -offset indent
lpr -#3 foo.c bar.c more.c
would result in 3 copies of the file foo.c, followed by 3 copies
of the file bar.c, etc. On the other hand,
-literal -offset indent
cat foo.c bar.c more.c | lpr -#3
will give three copies of the concatenation of the files. Often
a site will disable this feature to encourage use of a photocopier
instead.
Xo
Ns Oo Cm 1234 Oc Ar font
Specifies a
font
to be mounted on font position
i .
The daemon
will construct a
.railmag
file referencing
the font pathname.
Fl C Ar class
Job classification
to use on the burst page. For example,
-literal -offset indent
lpr -C EECS foo.c
causes the system name (the name returned by
hostname 1 )
to be replaced on the burst page by
EECS ,
and the file foo.c to be printed.
Fl J Ar job
Job name to print on the burst page.
Normally, the first file's name is used.
Fl T Ar title
Title name for
pr 1 ,
instead of the file name.
Fl U Ar user
User name to print on the burst page,
also for accounting purposes.
This option is only honored if the real user-id is daemon
(or that specified in the printcap file instead of daemon),
and is intended for those instances where print filters wish to requeue jobs.
Fl i Op numcols
The output is indented. If the next argument
is numeric
Ar numcols ,
it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each
line; otherwise, 8 characters are printed.
Fl w Ns Ar num
Uses
num
as the page width for
pr 1 .
