29 lines
624 B
Groff
29 lines
624 B
Groff
.TH LP 4
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.SH NAME
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lp \- line printer
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B lp
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device refers to the line printer attached to the parallel port. Any byte
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written to this device is printed. Only one process may have the device
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open.
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.PP
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The
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.B write (2)
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call may return with a smaller count then the number of bytes requested to
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write. The next write call is then likely to fail with the error code
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.B EAGAIN
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if the printer is out of paper, or
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.B EIO
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if the printer is turned off.
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.SH FILES
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.TP 10
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/dev/lp
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Parallel port device.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR lp (1).
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.SH BUGS
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Only one parallel port is supported.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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