Technical data
ULTRIX:
To Display This... Issue This Command...
Available printers on your node
cat /etc/printcap
Print jobs printing or pending on a specific
printer
lpq -Pqueuename
2.2 Listing Your Print Jobs
VMS:
To list your print jobs that are printing or pending, issue the following
command:
SHOW ENTRY
The following information is displayed:
Jobname Username Entry Blocks Status
------- -------- ----- ------ ------
NEW USER1 937 154 Printing
On Printer queue LPS32$POST
ULTRIX:
To list your print jobs that are printing or pending on a specific print queue,
issue the lpq command followed by your user name and the queue name. For
example:
lpq user1 post
The following information is displayed:
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
Active Root 70 .login 22 bytes
2.3 Displaying Print Job Status on the Operator Panel
You can also use the operator panel on the PrintServer 32 printer to display
information about the job that is printing.
2–2 Displaying Printer Status