lpc — Line Printer Control Program

Synopsis

/usr/ucb/lpc [command [parameter...]] 

Description

Use the lpc (line printer control) command to control the operation of printers.

lpc performs the following functions.

  • Starts or stops a printer.

  • Disables or enables a printer's spooling queue.

  • Rearranges the order of jobs in a print queue.

  • Displays the status of a printer print queue and printer daemon

You can run lpc from the command line or interactively. Specifying lpc with the optional command and parameter arguments interprets the first argument as an lpc command and all other arguments as parameters to that command. Specifying lpc without arguments runs it interactively, prompting for lpc commands with lpc>. If you redirect the standard input, ...

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