LP(1) | General Commands Manual | LP(1) |
lp
— front-end to
the print spooler
lp |
[-cs ] [-d
printer] [-n
num] [-o
option] [file ...] |
lp
is a front-end to the print spooler as
required by the IEEE Std 1003.2
(“POSIX.2”) specification. It effectively invokes
lpr(1) with the proper set of
arguments. It generally prints the named files on the destination
printer.
The following options are available:
-c
lp
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.-d
printer-d
is provided
on the command line, the contents of the environment variables
LPDEST
or PRINTER
(with
this precedence) are taken as the destination printer.-n
num-o
option-s
As described above, the variables LPDEST
and PRINTER
are examined to select the destination
printer.
The lp
command is expected to comply with
the IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”)
specification.
This implementation of the lp
command has
been written by Jörg Wunsch.
The IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.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.
January 22, 1995 | NetBSD 10.99 |