Making a Printed Copy
It's one thing to create wonderful material in your UNIX account, and another entirely to have it printed. That's what this lesson is all about.
Task 17.1: Find Local Printers with printers
 | Of the many problems with printing in UNIX, none is more grievous than trying to figure out the names of all the different printers available, what kinds of printers they are, and where they're located. A complicated configuration file—/etc/printcap—contains all this information, but it's definitely not easy to read. So what do you do? |
Some systems have an lpstat command, which lists printers available on the system. I find the output ... |
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