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 50The 51.Nm 52utility is a front-end to the print spooler as required by the 53.St -p1003.2 54specification. It effectively invokes 55.Xr lpr 1 56with the proper set of arguments. 57.Pp 58It generally prints the named files on the destination printer. 59.Pp 60The following options are available: 61.Bl -tag -width indent 62.It Fl c 63Make the 64.Nm 65command exit only after further access to any of the input files is no 66longer required. The application can then safely delete or modify the 67files without affecting the output operation. 68.It Fl d Ar dest 69Specify a particular printer. 70If no 71.Fl d 72is provided on the command line, the contents of the environment 73variables 74.Ev LPDEST 75or 76.Ev PRINTER 77(with this precedence) 78are taken as the destination printer. 79.It Fl n Ar num 80Specify that 81.Ar num 82copies of each of the named files shall be printed. 83.It Fl o Ar option 84Printer specific options. 85Not supported, provided only as a compatibility 86option for SVR. 87.It Fl s 88Silent operation. 89Not supported, 90provided only as a compatibility option for 91.St -susv2 . 92.El 93.Sh ENVIRONMENT 94As described above, the variables 95.Ev LPDEST 96and 97.Ev PRINTER 98are examined to select the destination printer. 99.Sh SEE ALSO 100.Xr lpr 1 101.Sh STANDARDS 102The 103.Nm 104command is expected to comply with the 105.St -p1003.2 106specification. 107.Sh AUTHORS 108This implementation of the 109.Nm 110command has been written by 111.An J\(:org Wunsch . 112.Sh BUGS 113The 114.St -p1003.2 115specification does not provide any means to print non-text files. It 116rather requires the files to be printed to be text files limited to 117reasonable line lengths and printable characters. 118