Operating System - HP-UX의 주제 Re: lpr command

lpr command

Alan Casey — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:15:14 GMT

I am running HP-UX 11.0 and there is no man entry for the lpr command.

I want to print a text file to a printer using the command line, is this possable?

Alan

Re: lpr command

Kellogg Unix Team — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:16:07 GMT

Hi Alan,

Use 'lp' command.

lp will print your file to system default printer.

...Manjeet

Re: lpr command

William Whiteford — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:20:06 GMT

Hi,

you could use
lp -d

assuming the printer has been set up

HTH Billy

Re: lpr command

Rita C Workman — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:26:17 GMT

Alan,

lpr (or rlp) is used for printing to remote printers. It invokes the rlpdaemon. How was printer set up...??

So, might I ask what device are you printing to??? I think that info might be helpful..

Rita

Re: lpr command

Alan Casey — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:27:46 GMT

thanks guys,

I'm having problems with the interpretation of Carriage Return with this command, it is skewing accross the page, any ideas?

Re: lpr command

Alan Casey — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:32:40 GMT

hi

got it to work with ux2dos command

Thanks for the help
Alan

Re: lpr command

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:33:59 GMT

Hi Alan:

If the file came from a Windows environment, a line is delimited with a linefeed/carriage-return instead of a linefeed. The appearance of this usually means you FTP'd a "text" file from Windows to Unix in binary instead of ASCII mode. To strip the carriage-returns and print the file do:

# dos2ux myfile|lp

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: lpr command

John Palmer — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:41:30 GMT

Hi Alan,

UNIX only uses lf as a line delimiter, Windows uses crlf.

There are some options...

It's usually possible to configure the printer to interpret lf as crlf.

If you've got the printer connected via a Jetdirect card, the lp subsystem uses a program called 'hpnpf' to send the file to the printer. Have a look at 'man hpnpf' and check out the -n and -N flags, one of these should fix your problem. Implement it by amending the relevant interface script (/etc/lp/interface/) and look for HPNPFOPT.

Regards,
John

Re: lpr command

Pete Randall — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:43:01 GMT

Alan,

I suspect you were thinking of the pr command which is sometimes used to format files before piping them to lp.

Pete

Re: lpr command

Ernesto Cappello — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:35:23 GMT

Hi
For a printer named printer#, you must use the following command to print filename

lp -dprinter# filename

For a printer named printer#, configured with an interface script that defines the -c option to cause the printer to print in a compressed mode, use the following command to print filename with compressed print on printer#:

lp -dprinter# -oc filename

Regards.
Ernesto.