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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

lpc (8)

Name

lpc - line printer control program (deprecated)

Synopsis

lpc [ command [ parameter(s) ] ]

Description

lpc(8)                            Apple Inc.                            lpc(8)



NAME
       lpc - line printer control program (deprecated)

SYNOPSIS
       lpc [ command [ parameter(s) ] ]

DESCRIPTION
       lpc  provides limited control over printer and class queues provided by
       CUPS. It can also be used to query the state of queues.

       If no command is specified on the command-line, lpc displays  a  prompt
       and accepts commands from the standard input.

   COMMANDS
       The  lpc  program accepts a subset of commands accepted by the Berkeley
       lpc program of the same name:

       exit Exits the command interpreter.

       help [command]

       ? [command]
            Displays a short help message.

       quit Exits the command interpreter.

       status [queue]
            Displays the status of one or more printer or class queues.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | print/cups       |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile         |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       This program is deprecated and will be  removed  in  a  future  feature
       release of CUPS.

       Since  lpc is geared towards the Berkeley printing system, it is impos-
       sible to use lpc to configure printer or class queues provided by CUPS.
       To  configure  printer or class queues you must use the lpadmin(8) com-
       mand or another CUPS-compatible client with that functionality.

       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source   was   downloaded    from     https://github.com/apple/cups/ar-
       chive/v2.3.3.zip.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.cups.org/.

SEE ALSO
       cancel(1), cupsaccept(8),  cupsenable(8),  lp(1),  lpadmin(8),  lpr(1),
       lprm(1), lpstat(1), CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2007-2019 by Apple Inc.




26 April 2019                        CUPS                               lpc(8)