NAME

bitprt − capture the image on a bitmap display and print it on an IBM printer

SYNOPSIS

bitprt display [ −t ] [ −Pxx ] [−Lparms ]

DESCRIPTION

Bitprt captures a “snapshot” of the image on a display device (specified as indicated below), and routes it to a printer (IBM 5152 Graphics Printer, IBM 4201 Proprinter, or IBM 3812 Pageprinter) or to standard output. 

A display is one of the following:

−a Selects the IBM Academic Information Systems experimental display;

−8 Selects the apa8 (IBM 6153 Advanced Monochrome Graphics Display);

−8c Selects the apa8c (IBM 6154 Advanced Color Graphics Display);

−16 Selects the apa16 (IBM 6155 Extended Monochrome Graphics Display). 

Options are:

−t Send output to standard output. 

−Pxx Send output to printer xx which corresponds to an entry in /etc/printcap.  The default is taken from the PRINTER environment variable, if it exists; otherwise lp is used. 

−Lparms Pass parameter parms to lpr(1). This may be a single parameter (e.g., -L-h)  or a string (e.g., -L"-h -r -m"). 

NOTES

The following printers are supported:
 

    IBM 3812 Pageprinter
    IBM 4201 Proprinter
    IBM 5152 Graphics Printer

Bitprt is not supported on the IBM 6152 Academic System. 

FILES

/etc/printcap
/dev/bus
/dev/lp

SEE ALSO

dumpaed(1), dumpapa16(1), dumpapa8(1), dumpapa8c(1), lpr(1), scale(1), ibm6153(4), ibm6154(4), ibm6155(4), ibmaed(4), lp(4), lpfilter(8R)

BUGS

Only the first color plane for the IBM 6154 Advanced Color Graphics display is captured. 
 

PRPQs 5799-WZQ/5799-PFF: IBM/4.3  —  15 Dec 1986