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Printing with lp

  The lp command is the normal print command on UNIX systems based on System V, such as HP-UX and Sun/Solaris 2. The differences include the fact that the environment variable PRINTER is replaced by the variable LPDEST; that the switch to print to a remote printer other than the default is
 
                    		  lp 	-d printername

and the commands to examine the printer status and cancel a print job are lpstat and cancel respectively. Consult the man pages for lp on the system for further details.



Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995