1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2 3<html> 4 <head> 5 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> 6 <title>PRINTER, LPDEST, NPRINTER, and NGPRINTER Environment 7 Variables</title> 8 <meta name="GENERATOR" content= 9 "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"> 10 <link rel="HOME" title=" LPRng Reference Manual" href= 11 "index.htm"> 12 <link rel="UP" title= 13 "LPRng Clients - lpr, lprm, lpq, lpc, lpstat " href= 14 "lprngclients.htm"> 15 <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Command Line -Pprinter" href= 16 "x4119.htm"> 17 <link rel="NEXT" title="Wildcard Printcap Entry" href= 18 "x4141.htm"> 19 </head> 20 21 <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link= 22 "#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 23 <div class="NAVHEADER"> 24 <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border= 25 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 26 <tr> 27 <th colspan="3" align="center">LPRng Reference Manual: 5 28 Sep 2003 (For LPRng-3.8.22)</th> 29 </tr> 30 31 <tr> 32 <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href= 33 "x4119.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 34 35 <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 5. 36 <b class="APPLICATION">LPRng</b> Clients - lpr, lprm, 37 lpq, lpc, lpstat</td> 38 39 <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href= 40 "x4141.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 41 </tr> 42 </table> 43 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 44 </div> 45 46 <div class="SECT1"> 47 <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="AEN4125">5.4. PRINTER, LPDEST, 48 NPRINTER, and NGPRINTER Environment Variables</a></h1> 49 50 <p>If no command line option is specified, the <b class= 51 "APPLICATION">LPRng</b> clients will use the first defined 52 <acronym class="ACRONYM">PRINTER</acronym>, <acronym class= 53 "ACRONYM">LPDEST</acronym>, <acronym class= 54 "ACRONYM">NPRINTER</acronym>, or <acronym class= 55 "ACRONYM">NGPRINTER</acronym> environment variable value and 56 will use the value as though specified as a <var class= 57 "LITERAL">-P$PRINTER</var> command line literal. If the value 58 has the form <var class="LITERAL">-Pprinter@host</var> the 59 print queue will be <var class="LITERAL">printer</var> on 60 server <var class="LITERAL">host</var> and not consult the 61 printcap database. If the value has the form <var class= 62 "LITERAL">printer</var> then the printcap will be searched 63 for a <var class="LITERAL">printer</var> printcap entry. For 64 example:</p> 65 66 <div class="INFORMALEXAMPLE"> 67 <a name="AEN4139"></a> 68<pre class="SCREEN"> 69 export PRINTER=laser@10.0.0.1; lpr 70 equivalent to printcap entry: 71 laser:lp=laser@10.0.0.1 72 export PRINTER=pr; lpr 73 look up printcap entry for 'lp' 74</pre> 75 </div> 76 <br> 77 <br> 78 </div> 79 80 <div class="NAVFOOTER"> 81 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 82 83 <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border= 84 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 85 <tr> 86 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href= 87 "x4119.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 88 89 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 90 "index.htm" accesskey="H">Home</a></td> 91 92 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href= 93 "x4141.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 94 </tr> 95 96 <tr> 97 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Command Line 98 -Pprinter</td> 99 100 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 101 "lprngclients.htm" accesskey="U">Up</a></td> 102 103 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Wildcard 104 Printcap Entry</td> 105 </tr> 106 </table> 107 </div> 108 </body> 109</html> 110 111