PRINTCAP(8) May 10, 1991 PRINTCAP(8) NAME printcap - SYNOPSIS printcap DESCRIPTION Printcap termcap(5) , line printers. spool , printcap . . . This data base may not be substituted for, as is possible for termcap, because it may allow accounting to be bypassed. lp, PRINTER (override). spool -p , . , 4.3 BSD Line Printer Spooler Manual. CAPABILITIES termcap(5) . Name Type Description af str NULL name of accounting file br num none if lp is a tty, set the baud rate (ioctl(2) call) cf str NULL cifplot data filter df str NULL tex data filter (DVI format) fc num 0 if lp is a tty, clear flag bits (sgtty.h) ff str ` string to send for a form feed fo bool false print a form feed when device is opened fs num 0 like `fc' but set bits gf str NULL graph data filter (plot(3) format) hl bool false print the burst header page last ic bool false driver supports(non standard) ioctl to indent printout if str NULL name of text filter which does accounting lf str /dev/console error logging file name lo str lock name of lock file lp str /dev/lp device name to open for output mx num 1000 maximum file size (in BUFSIZ blocks), zero = unlimited nd str NULL next directory for list of queues (unimplemented) nf str NULL ditroff data filter (device independent troff) of str NULL name of output filtering program pc num 200 price per foot or page in hundredths of cents pl num 66 page length (in lines) pw num 132 page width (in characters) px num 0 page width in pixels (horizontal) py num 0 page length in pixels (vertical) rf str NULL filter for printing FORTRAN style text files rg str NULL restricted group. Only members of group allowed access rm str NULL machine name for remote printer rp str ``lp'' remote printer name argument rs bool false restrict remote users to those with local accounts rw bool false open the printer device for reading and writing sb bool false short banner (one line only) sc bool false suppress multiple copies sd str /var/spool/lpd spool directory sf bool false suppress form feeds sh bool false suppress printing of burst page header st str status status file name tf str NULL troff data filter (cat phototypesetter) tr str NULL trailer string to print when queue empties vf str NULL raster image filter (local line printer) driver indentation , daemon . FILTERS lpd(8) (pipeline of filters) . lpr(1) . : p pr | if regular text + pr(1) none If regular text c cf cifplot d df DVI (tex) g gf plot(3) n nf ditroff f rf Fortran t tf troff v vf raster image if : if [-c] -wwidth -llength -iindent -n login -h host acct-file -c -l lpr . width length page (from pw and pl respectively). -n -h login name host name. Acct-file printcap . If no if is specified, of is used instead, with the distinction that of is opened only once, while if is opened for every individual job. Thus, if is better suited to performing accounting. The of is only given the width and length flags. : filter -xwidth -ylength -n login -h host acct-file pixels , px py . stdin , stdout , stderr syslog(3) (log), SIGINT. LOGGING Error messages generated by the line printer programs themselves (that is, the lp* programs) are logged by syslog(3) using the LPR facility. Messages printed on stderr of one of the filters are sent to the corre- sponding lf file. The filters may, of course, use syslog themselves. Error messages sent to the console have a carriage return and a line feed appended to them, rather than just a line feed. SEE ALSO termcap(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), pac(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1) 4.3 BSD Line Printer Spooler Manual. HISTORY The printcap file format appeared in 4.2BSD.. [] [] 1997.01.01 linuxman: http://cmpp.linuxforum.net man man https://github.com/man-pages-zh/manpages- zh 4.2 Berkeley Distribution UNIX Programmer's Manual PRINTCAP(8)