Unix Environment
July 1998
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7. Enable the printer and accept these print job commands:
enable
<printer name>
accept
<printer name>
10.5 Printcap File Parameters
Some commonly used entries in the printcap Þle are listed below.
Note: The number of copies option with
LPR
(
LPR-
number of copies) is
not supported. To suppress banner pages for individual print jobs,
use
LPR
with the
-h
option or turn off the banner printing via telnet.
The suppress header (
sh
) option in
/etc/printcap
Þle does not
work.
Name
Type
Default
Description
af
string
NULL
full path and name of the accounting
Þle
br
number
none
baud rate
lf
string
/dev/console
full path and name of error log
lp
string
/dev/lp
device name to open for output
mc
num
0
maximum number of copies
mx
num
1000
maximum Þle size in blocks
of
string
NULL
full path and name of output Þlter
pl
num
66
page length
pw
num
132
page width
rm
string
NULL
name of machine for remote printer
rp
string
lp
remote <queuename> argument (ÒpsÓ)
rc
boolean
false
restrict remote users to those with
local accounts
rw
boolean
false
open printer device read/write instead
of write only
sb
boolean
false
short banner (one line only) (see Note)
sd
string
/var/spool/lpd
spool directory
sh
boolean
false
suppress burst page headers (see
Note)
tf
string
NULL
troff data Þlter