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NAME
     lpdsend - queued print request to remote host running
     Berkeley LPD spooler using MDQS

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/lib/mdqs/lpdsend host printer [ -f format ]

DESCRIPTION
     The MDQS server lpdsend allows the spooling of files to a
     printer on a remote host which is running the Berkeley LPD
     spooling system over the network (See netsend(8MDQS)).

     The MDQS spooling system reserves the device name lpd for
     spooling to a remote host which is running the LPD spooling
     system on the network.

OPTIONS
     -f format      Selects the appropriate filter to be used by
                    the remote Berkeley spooling daemon to print
                    the data being sent by the lpdsend server.
                    Unlike the MDQS spooling systems, files which
                    are entered into an LPD printer queue must
                    also contain a filter program type
                    specification to be invoked for printing
                    data.  The format option has the following
                    values:

          p    The files are assumed to be text, use pr(1) to
               format the files (equivalent to print).

          p    The files are assumed to be text with control
               strings; use a filter which allows printable
               control characters and suppresses page breaks.

          t    The files are assumed to contain data from
               troff(1) (cat phototypesetter commands).

          n    The files are assumed to contain data from ditroff
               (device independent troff).

          d    The files are assumed to contain data from tex(l)
               (DVI format from Stanford).

          g    The files are assumed to contain standard plot
               data as produced by the plot(3X) routines; see
               also plot(1G) for the filters used by the printer
               spooler.

          v    The files are assumed to contain a raster image
               for devices like the Benson Varian.

          c    The files are assumed to contain data produced by



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               cifplot(l).

          f    Files are assumed to be formatted text usually
               generated by a Fortran program, a filter which
               interprets the first character of each line as a
               standard FORTRAN carriage control character.  If
               the -f option is not specified, then this printer
               format is the default for the lpdsend server which
               conforms to the default conventions of the LPD
               spooling system.

EXAMPLES
     The following example shows the /etc/qconf entries necessary
     to send text files to the printer lp on the remote host pogo
     which is running the Berkeley LPD spooler.  The files will
     be formatted by the pr command before printing.  The files
     to be printed will be queued to the MDQS queue pogolp by the
     MDQS lpr -q pogolp command.

     qconf Device Description entry:

          #<dname>  <device>  <forms>  <status>
             lpd    /dev/null Anyform   skipmsg

     qconf Queue Description entry:

          #<qname>  <status>
            pogolp

     qconf Queue/Device Mapping Description entry:

          # <qname>  <dname>        <server>
             pogolp    lpd    /usr/lib/mdqs/lpdsend pogo lp -f p

DIAGNOSTICS
     Errors which are detected by the lpdsend server are passed
     back to the MDQS daemon and reported in the MDQS console log
     specified in the qconf file.  Errors which are detected by
     the LPD spooler when the file is being printed will not be
     returned to the queueing host.

     The lpdsend server will not send binary files to be spooled
     to an LPD system.

CAVEATS
     This server is NEVER called directly by the user and is
     specified in the file /etc/qconf; lpdsend is called by the
     MDQS daemon.

     This version of the lpdserver represents a prototype release
     of the server.  Consequently there is currently no support
     for changing page width, or specifying font types.



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SEE ALSO
     The following manual pages are available on the host which
     uses MDQS to spool the request using the lpdsend server:

     lpr(1mdqs), qconf(5mdqs), lpserver(8mdqs), netsend(8mdqs),
     mdqsd(8mdqs), sysadmin(8).

     The following manual pages might be available on the remote
     host running the LPD spooling system:

     lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), pr(1), printcap(5), lpc(8), lpd(8).












































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