1.\" $NetBSD: lp.4,v 1.4 1997/10/19 13:01:06 mrg 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 BSD 4 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm lp 41.Nd line printer 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Cd "device lp0 at uba0 csr 0177514 vector lpintr" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm lp 47device 48supports 49.Tn DEC 50and 51.Tn DEC 52compatible printers 53on the 54.Tn LP-11 55parallel interface. 56.Pp 57The unit number of the printer is specified by the minor device 58after removing the low 3 bits, which act as per-device parameters. 59Currently only the lowest of the low three bits is interpreted: 60if it is set, the device is assumed to have a 64-character set or 61.Pf half Tn -ASCII 62mode, 63rather than a full 96-character set. 64.Pp 65If the 64-character set is assumed, 66any lower case characters are mapped to upper case; left curly and 67right curly braces are mapped to left and right parentheses over 68laid with a hyphen; grave accents are mapped to acute accents 69with overlaid with a hyphen; the pipe bar character is mapped 70to an exclamation sign overlaid with a hyphen; and the tilde 71character is mapped to a carat overlaid with a hyphen. 72.Pp 73The default page width is 132 columns; longer lines are 74truncated. 75This may be overridden by specifying, for example, 76.Ql flags 256 . 77.Sh FILES 78.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact 79.It Pa /dev/lp 80.El 81.Sh SEE ALSO 82.Xr lpr 1 83.Sh HISTORY 84A 85.Nm 86driver appeared in 87.At v6 . 88