NAME
rlp — send LP line printer request to a remote system
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rlp
-Iid
[-C
class]
[-J
job]
[-T
title]
[-i
[numcols]]
[-kfont]
[-w
num]
[-cdfghlnptv]
file
DESCRIPTION
rlp
transfers a spooling request to a remote system to be printed.
rlp
communicates with a spooling daemon on a remote system
to transfer the spooling request.
Options can be set only on the original system.
Transfers of a remote request use only the
-I
option and the file.
This command is intended to be used only by the spool system
in response to the
lp
command and should not be invoked directly (see
lp(1)).
Options
rlp
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
- -Iid
The argument
id
is the request
ID.
- -C class
Take the
class
argument as a job classification for use on the banner page.
- -J job
Take the
job
argument as the job name to print on the banner page.
Normally, the first file's name is used.
- -T title
Use the
title
argument as the title used by
pr
instead of the file name (see
pr(1)).
-T
is ignored unless the
-p
option is specified.
- -h
Suppress the printing of the banner page.
- -i[numcols]
Cause the output to be indented.
If the next argument is numeric,
it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each line;
otherwise, 8 characters are printed.
- -kfont
Specify a
font
to be mounted on font position
k,
where
k
is from
1
through
4.
- -wnum
Use the
num
argument number as the page width for
pr.
The following single-letter options are used
to notify the line printer spooler
that the files are not standard text files.
The spooling system uses the appropriate filters
(if the option is supported) to print the data accordingly.
These options are mutually exclusive.
- -c
The files are assumed to contain data produced by
cifplot.
- -d
The files are assumed to contain data from
tex
(DVI format).
- -f
Use a filter that interprets the first character of each line
as a standard FORTRAN carriage control character.
- -g
The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by the
plot
routines.
- -l
Use a filter that suppresses page breaks.
- -n
The files are assumed to contain data from
ditroff
(device-independent
troff).
- -p
Use
pr
to format the files.
- -t
The files are assumed to contain data from
troff
(cat phototypesetter commands).
- -v
The files are assumed to contain a raster image
for devices such as the Benson Varian.
WARNINGS
Some remote line printer models may not support all of these options.
Options not supported are silently ignored.
When
rlp
is transferring a request that originated on another system, only the
-I
option and the file is used.
This saves
rlp
from having to set the various options multiple times.
Specifying unused options does not produce an error.
AUTHOR
rlp
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley
and HP.
FILES
/etc/passwd
/usr/sbin/rlpdaemon
/var/spool/lp/*
/var/adm/lp/*
/etc/lp/*
/usr/lib/lp/*
