LPRng
2006-12-09
Aliases: pclbanner(1), pclbanner(1), pclbanner(1), psbanner(1), psbanner(1), psbanner(1)
lprng
lpr/lpd printer spooling system
NAME
lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript
SYNOPSIS
lpbanner [ -l length ] [ -w width ] [ -P printer ] [ -L bannername ] [ -n loginname ] [ -h host ] [ -J jobtitle ] [ -C class ] [ -? option args ] [ all ]
DESCRIPTION
The lpbanner program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size font printer, the pclbanner program generates a PCL banner and the psbanner program generates a PostScript banner. All information to be printed is passed using command line arguments. In order to be compatible with vintage line printer spoolers, reads a line form standard input, but ignores the information.
OPTIONS
| -w width | |
| Page width in characters (default 132). | |
| -l length | |
| Page length in lines (default 60). | |
| -P printer | |
| printer queue for banner information. | |
| -L bannername | |
| Name used on banner as main name. | |
| -n loginname | |
| Name used on banner as login name. | |
| -h host | Name used on banner as host name. |
| -J jobtitle | |
| String used on banner as main title. | |
| -C class | |
| String used on banner as class. | |
| -? value | |
| All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored. | |
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
| zero (0) | Successful completion. |
| non-zero (!=0) | An error occurred. |
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Patrick Powell <papowell>.
HISTORY
LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. The LPRng developer mailing list is lprng-devel; subscribe by visiting https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending mail to lprng-request with the word subscribe in the body.
The software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net
The software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net
