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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Looking for Printer names
Message-ID: <3979@phri.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 17:03:47 GMT
References: <2024@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In <2024@munnari.oz.au> kklw@mullian..ee.mu.OZ.AU (Kevin K L WONG) writes:
> 	How can I find out what are the names of printers availble in an
> unix system for the command lpr ? Thank you.

	Assuming you are running a fairly standard Berkeley system, you
should be able to just look at the /etc/printcap file.  It should have a
number of entries which look sort of like the following.  The first bit,
the "lp9|cit902" gives the name(s) for this printer.

# CIT-3500 dot-matrix in room 902
lp9|cit902:\
	:lp=/dev/tty14:br#9600:\
	:fs#0006320:fc#0171457:\
	:xs#0040040:xc#0000000:\
	:pl#66:pw#132:\
	:sc:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpr/lp9:\
	:lf=/usr/spool/lpr/lp9/log:\
	:af=/usr/spool/lpr/lp9/acct:
	:fo:tr=\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n:
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