atprint(1)                                             atprint(1)



     NAME
          atprint - copy data to a remote PAP server

     SYNOPSIS
          atprint [object[:type[@zone ]]]

     DESCRIPTION
          The atprint command opens a Printer Access Protocol (PAP)
          AppleTalk connection to a remote PAP server, such as a
          LaserWriter, and then copies its standard input to the re-
          mote server until it reaches an end-of-file.  You can use
          this command to send ``raw'' PostScript code to a LaserWrit-
          er or to send ASCII text to an ImageWriter.  (This command
          won't engage in a dialog with a LaserWriter about fonts or
          load PostScript header files in the same manner as a Macin-
          tosh Operating System does.)

          The destination PAP server is chosen as follows: If you
          specify a PAP server using object, type, and zone fields on
          the command line, the system uses that PAP server.  Other-
          wise, atprint goes by default to the system wide default
          printer set via the Macintosh Toolbox Chooser or the
          at_cho_prn(1) utility.

          If the atprint command succeeds in establishing a connection
          with the server, it sends its input there.  If you specify
          only the name, object, of the printer and leave out the
          type, atprint uses LaserWriter by default.  An asterisk for
          zone indicates the local zone.

          The atprint command outputs a message indicating which
          server it is connected to before it transfers data.

     EXAMPLES
          This command preprocesses the file and then pipes the
          PostScript output to joe's printer:

             enscript -p- filename | atprint "joe's printer"


     WARNINGS
          The atprint command does not interpret contents of input
          files.  To print properly on a PostScript printer, ASCII
          files must be preprocessed through pstext(1) or enscript(1),
          and troff-formatted files must be pre-processed through
          psdit(1).

     FILES
          /usr/bin/atprint






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     atprint(1)                                             atprint(1)



     SEE ALSO
          at_cho_prn(1), atlookup(1), atstatus(1), enscript(1),
          psdit(1); pstext(1), Inside AppleTalk; Inside
          PostScript/LaserWriter; ``AppleTalk Programming Guide,'' in
          A/UX Network Applications Programming; ``Installing and Ad-
          ministering AppleTalk,'' in A/UX Network System Administra-
          tion.
















































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