Summary of Printing Differences

The SunOS release 5.7 LP print service replaces the SunOS release 4.x printing facilities, which were provided by the lpd daemon and lpr, lpq, lprm, and lpc commands. Admintool enables youto set up and administer printers through a graphical user interface. You can also use a command-line interface for the LP print service to administer SunOS release 5.7 printers. For detailed information about Admintool and the command-line interface to the LP service, see System Administration Guide, Volume II.

The services provided by the /etc/printcap file in the SunOS release 4.x software are handled in the Solaris 7 operating environment by the terminfo database and by the files in the /etc/lp directory.