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From: ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E. Saddler III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Looking for Printer names
Message-ID: <2882@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 06:06:09 GMT
References: <2024@munnari.oz.au>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle WA
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Summary: consult the man page(s) for lpr.....the answer is there

In article <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.
> 

Well Kevin,

I'm not sure what you're asking, but I'll assume that you want to
know what printers your system is currently configured for, and
their capabilities.  If you are wanting to know what _all_ the
printers in the world lpr(1) can support, well, it's unlimited!

The manual entry for lpr has some good leads;

First, look at:

FILES
	/etc/printcap		printer capabilities data base

Then, look at:

SEE ALSO
	printcap(5)

The definitions for devices that lpr(1) knows about are defined in
the /etc/printcap file.  Best-o-luck!
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