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LP(4)                 NetBSD/vax Kernel Interfaces Manual                LP(4)


NAME

     lp -- parallel line printer


SYNOPSIS

     lp0 at uba0 csr 0177514 vector lpintr


DESCRIPTION

     NOTE: This driver has not been ported from 4.4BSD yet.

     The lp device supports DEC and DEC compatible printers on the LP-11 par-
     allel interface.

     The unit number of the printer is specified by the minor device after
     removing the low 3 bits, which act as per-device parameters.  Currently
     only the lowest of the low three bits is interpreted: if it is set, the
     device is assumed to have a 64-character set or half-ASCII mode, rather
     than a full 96-character set.

     If the 64-character set is assumed, any lower case characters are mapped
     to upper case; left curly and right curly braces are mapped to left and
     right parentheses over laid with a hyphen; grave accents are mapped to
     acute accents with overlaid with a hyphen; the pipe bar character is
     mapped to an exclamation sign overlaid with a hyphen; and the tilde char-
     acter is mapped to a carat overlaid with a hyphen.

     The default page width is 132 columns; longer lines are truncated.  This
     may be overridden by specifying, for example, `flags 256'.


FILES

     /dev/lp


SEE ALSO

     lpr(1)


HISTORY

     A lp driver appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

NetBSD 5.2                       June 5, 1993                       NetBSD 5.2