1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Joerg Wunsch 3.\" 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This program is free software. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 17.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 18.\" This product includes software developed by Joerg Wunsch 19.\" 4. The name of the developer may not be used to endorse or promote 20.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 21.\" permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 25.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 26.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 27.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 28.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 29.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 30.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 31.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 32.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" $FreeBSD$ 35.\" 36.Dd January 22, 1995 37.Dt LP 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm lp 41.Nd front-end to the print spooler 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl cs 45.Op Fl o Ar option 46.Op Fl d Ar printer 47.Op Fl n Ar num 48.Op Ar name ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50.Nm \&Lp 51is a front-end to the print spooler as required by the 52.St -p1003.2 53specification. It effectively invokes 54.Xr lpr 1 55with the proper set of arguments. 56.Pp 57It generally prints the named files on the destination printer. 58.Pp 59The following options are available: 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl c 62Make the 63.Nm 64command exit only after further access to any of the input files is no 65longer required. The application can then safely delete or modify the 66files without affecting the output operation. 67.It Fl d Ar dest 68Specify a particular printer. 69If no 70.Fl d 71is provided on the command line, the contents of the environment 72variables 73.Ev LPDEST 74or 75.Ev PRINTER 76(with this precedence) 77are taken as the destination printer. 78.It Fl n Ar num 79Specify that 80.Ar num 81copies of each of the named files shall be printed. 82.It Fl o Ar option 83Printer specific options. 84Not supported, provided only as a compatibility 85option for SVR. 86.It Fl s 87Silent operation. 88Not supported, 89provided only as a compatibility option for 90.St -susv2 . 91.El 92.Sh ENVIRONMENT 93As described above, the variables 94.Ev LPDEST 95and 96.Ev PRINTER 97are examined to select the destination printer. 98.Sh SEE ALSO 99.Xr lpr 1 100.Sh STANDARDS 101The 102.Nm 103command is expected to comply with the 104.St -p1003.2 105specification. 106.Sh AUTHORS 107This implementation of the 108.Nm 109command has been written by 110.An J\(:org Wunsch . 111.Sh BUGS 112The 113.St -p1003.2 114specification does not provide any means to print non-text files. It 115rather requires the files to be printed to be text files limited to 116reasonable line lengths and printable characters. 117