NAME

rlp − send a request to a remote LP line printer

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/rlp −Iid [ −C class ] [ −J job ] [ −T title ] [ −i[numcols] ] [ −kfont ] [ −wnum ] [ −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 may be set only on the original system.  Transfers of a remote request only use the −I option and the file. 

Options

−Iid The argument id is the request ID. 

−C class Take the following argument as a job classification for use on the banner page. 

−J job Take the following argument as the job name to print on the banner page.  Normally, the first file’s name is used. 

−T title Use the next argument as the title used by pr(1) instead of the file name. −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 to 4. 

−wnum Take the immediately following number to be the page width for pr(1).

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(1) 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.  It does not hurt to specify unused options. 

AUTHOR

Rlp was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and HP. 

DEPENDENCIES

Series 300 Diskless
In a clustered environment, all printers are attached to the rootserver and all spooling is handled as if the cluster were a single system.  Remote spooling applies to spooling from or to machines outside of the cluster.

FILES

/etc/passwd
/usr/lib/rlpdaemon
/usr/spool/lp/*

SEE ALSO

accept(1M), enable(1), lp(1), lpadmin(1M), lpsched(1M), lpstat(1), rcancel(1M), rlpdaemon(1M), rlpstat(1M). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  May 11, 2021