LPCOVER(1)

NAME
lpcover - emulate LP

lpstatc - emulate LPSTAT

cancel - emulate CANCEL

SYNOPSIS
lpcover [ -options ] [ file ... ]

lpstatc [ -options ]

cancel jobnumber [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION
lpcover may be used instead of the standard lp command. It converts the options that most lp commands take to the equivalent spr(1) commandds and then invokes spr(1) to submit the print jobs.

The spr program provides a much greater set of facilities than lp. Although it is strongly recommended to switch to the spr(1) command to take advantage of these, they can be made available to users of our lpcover command. This is done by setting up "SPOOLOPTS" in the application or user environment.

Lpcover is usually installed in place of lp in /usr/bin, with the original binary moved to something like old.lp in the same directory.

Lpstatc emulates lpstat as far as is practicable, generating a report of outstanding print jobs from the print queue in a format similar to the original lpstat.

cancel is a shell script which invokes sqdel(1) on its arguments.

OPTIONS
The options below document lpcover only. Options to lpstatc generate a warning message on standard error and are otherwise ignored. Options to lpcover which are not documented here are ignored.

-c  This has no effect, but generates a warning message on standard error, as with GNUspool spool files are always copied.

-d name
    Specify printer destination as name. The destination may also be specified in the environment variable "LPDEST", which this option overrides. An argument of "any" to -d cancels any existing "LPDEST" environment variable.

    This is translated directly into a -P option to spr.

-f form
    specifies the supplied form type. This is translated directly into an -f option to spr.

-H arg
    There is no direct mapping for the -H argument.

-m  Mail user. This is translated directly into an -m option to spr.

-n n
    Specify the number of copies. This is translated directly into a -c option to spr.

-o arg
    Only -o "nobanner", to suppress the header page, is interpreted and translated to the -s option to spr.

-P arg
    This is translated into -R page range arguments for spr.

-q n
    This is translated into a -p argument for spr scaled appropriately, taking into account the user's maximum, minimum and default priorities.

-S  This option is ignored.

-s  This turns off the -v argument for spr which is normally included.

-T  This option is ignored.

-t <arg>
    This is translated to a -h (title) argument to spr.

-w  This is translated directly to the -w (write message) option to spr.

-y  This option is ignored.

ENVIRONMENT

LPDEST
    Specify destination for lpcover.

LPSTATFMT
    Specify alternate format for lpstatc.

DIAGNOSTICS
Various warnings about unimplemented features are printed by lpcover and lpstatc.

Others may be generated by software each invokes.

AUTHOR
John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.