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