[Next] [Previous] [Up] [Top] [Contents] [Index]
Chapter 8: Printing
There are two other traditional printing systems under UNIX. One of these is lpr, upon which flpr is based. lpr requires that each printer be defined in the local /etc/printcap file, which must be done by the system administrator. One of flpr's advantages is that no such definition is required since the host name and print queue can be specified on the command line. lpr is the default print command used by some applications, however. You can obtain in your current directory the file printcap which contains all printcap entries for print queues defined on FNPRT by executing the command:
% obtain printcap
The other traditional printing system is called lp. This has its own set of files which must be set up by system administrators and is recommended for use only in situations where the other options are not available to you.