lp.7 (2010 09)

lp(7) lp(7)

(Seires 800 Only)

LPRSET Set the current printer status information from the structure to which arg points.

The

lprio structure used in the LPRGET and

LPRSET requests is deﬁned in <sys/lprio.h>

, and

includes the following members:

short int ind; /* indent */

short int col; /* columns per page */

short int line; /* lines per page */

short int bksp; /* backspace handling flag */

short int open_ej; /* pages to eject on open */

short int close_ej; /* pages to eject on close */

short int raw_mode; /* raw mode flag */

These are remembered across opens, so the indent, page width, and page length can be set with an exter-

nal program. If the

col ﬁeld is set to zero, the defaults are restored at the next open.

If the backspace handling ﬂag is 0, a character printer is assumed and backspaces are passed through the

driver unchanged. If the ﬂag is a 1, a line printer is assumed, and sufﬁcient print operations are gen-

erated to generate the appropriate overstruck characters.

If the raw mode ﬂag is 0, data sent to the printer is formatted according to indent, columns per page,

lines per page, backspace handling, and pages to eject on open and close.

If the raw mode ﬂag is 1, data sent to the printer is not formatted.

If the raw mode ﬂag is changed from 1 to 0 (raw mode is turned off) and the format settings (indent,

columns per page, etc.) have not been modiﬁed, the data is formatted according to the prior format set-

tings.

AUTHOR

lp was developed by HP and AT&T.

FILES

/dev/lp default or standard printer used by some HP-UX commands;

/dev/[r]lp* special ﬁles for printers