1.\" $NetBSD: lp.4,v 1.7 2001/08/18 14:37:48 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" from: @(#)lp.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 5, 1993 37.Dt LP 4 vax 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm lp 41.Nd parallel line printer 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Cd "lp0 at uba0 csr 0177514 vector lpintr" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45NOTE: This driver has not been ported from 46.Bx 4.4 47yet. 48.Pp 49The 50.Nm lp 51device 52supports 53.Tn DEC 54and 55.Tn DEC 56compatible printers 57on the 58.Tn LP-11 59parallel interface. 60.Pp 61The unit number of the printer is specified by the minor device 62after removing the low 3 bits, which act as per-device parameters. 63Currently only the lowest of the low three bits is interpreted: 64if it is set, the device is assumed to have a 64-character set or 65.Pf half Tn -ASCII 66mode, 67rather than a full 96-character set. 68.Pp 69If the 64-character set is assumed, 70any lower case characters are mapped to upper case; left curly and 71right curly braces are mapped to left and right parentheses over 72laid with a hyphen; grave accents are mapped to acute accents 73with overlaid with a hyphen; the pipe bar character is mapped 74to an exclamation sign overlaid with a hyphen; and the tilde 75character is mapped to a carat overlaid with a hyphen. 76.Pp 77The default page width is 132 columns; longer lines are 78truncated. 79This may be overridden by specifying, for example, 80.Ql flags 256 . 81.Sh FILES 82.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact 83.It Pa /dev/lp 84.El 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr lpr 1 87.Sh HISTORY 88A 89.Nm 90driver appeared in 91.At v6 . 92