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1 | .TH LP 4 |
2 | .SH NAME | |
3 | lp \- line printer | |
4 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
5 | .I Lp | |
6 | provides the interface to any of the standard | |
7 | DEC line printers. | |
8 | When it is opened or closed, a suitable number | |
9 | of page ejects is generated. | |
10 | Bytes written are printed. | |
11 | .PP | |
12 | An internal parameter within the driver determines | |
13 | whether or not the device is treated as having | |
14 | a 96- or 64-character set. | |
15 | In half-ASCII mode, lower case letters are turned | |
16 | into | |
17 | upper case | |
18 | and certain characters are escaped according to | |
19 | the following table: | |
20 | .PP | |
21 | .if t .ig | |
22 | .br | |
23 | .ns | |
24 | .TP 10 | |
25 | { | |
26 | (\b- | |
27 | .br | |
28 | .ns | |
29 | .TP 10 | |
30 | } | |
31 | )\b- | |
32 | .br | |
33 | .ns | |
34 | .TP 10 | |
35 | \` | |
36 | \'\b- | |
37 | .br | |
38 | .ns | |
39 | .TP 10 | |
40 | | | |
41 | !\b- | |
42 | .br | |
43 | .ns | |
44 | .TP 10 | |
45 | ~ | |
46 | ^\b- | |
47 | .. | |
48 | .if n .ig | |
49 | .br | |
50 | .ns | |
51 | .TP 10 | |
52 | { | |
53 | \o"(\-" | |
54 | .br | |
55 | .ns | |
56 | .TP 10 | |
57 | } | |
58 | \o")\-" | |
59 | .br | |
60 | .ns | |
61 | .TP 10 | |
62 | \` | |
63 | \o"\'\-" | |
64 | .br | |
65 | .ns | |
66 | .TP 10 | |
67 | | | |
68 | \o"!\-" | |
69 | .br | |
70 | .ns | |
71 | .TP 10 | |
72 | ~ | |
73 | \o"^\-" | |
74 | .. | |
75 | .PP | |
76 | The driver correctly interprets | |
77 | carriage returns, backspaces, tabs, and form feeds. | |
78 | A sequence of newlines which extends over the end of | |
79 | a page is turned into a form feed. | |
80 | All lines are indented 8 characters. | |
81 | Lines longer than 80 characters are truncated. | |
82 | These numbers are parameters in the driver; | |
83 | another parameter allows indenting all printout | |
84 | if it is unpleasantly near the left margin. | |
85 | .SH FILES | |
86 | /dev/lp | |
87 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
88 | lpr(1) | |
89 | .SH BUGS | |
90 | Half-ASCII mode, the indent and the maximum line length should | |
91 | be settable by a call analogous to | |
92 | .IR stty (2). |