NAME

lp − line printer

DESCRIPTION

Lp provides the interface to any of the standard Digital Equipment Corporation line printers.  When it is opened or closed, a suitable number of page ejects is generated.  Bytes written are printed. 

An internal parameter within the driver determines whether or not the device is treated as having a 96- or 64-character set.  In half-ASCII mode, lower case letters are turned into upper case and certain characters are escaped according to the following table:

{ (
−

} )
−

` −´

│ !
−

~ ^
−

The driver correctly interprets carriage returns, backspaces, tabs, and form-feeds.  A new-line that extends over the end of a page is turned into a form-feed.  The default line length is 80 characters, indent is 4 characters and lines per page is 66.  Lines longer than the line length minus the indent (i.e. 76 characters, using the above defaults) are truncated. 

FILES

/dev/lp

SEE ALSO

lpr(1). 

May 16, 1980