Note:

tl To eliminate confusion, you should give the local and remote printers the same name, except where an existing local default name is required.

QUse the local printer name as the lpr entry on the lpr command line to direct the print.

The printer names used to invoke the different filters are as follows:

1pb

1Pa lpbf

lpaf

-Binary files (no filters)

-ASCII files (carriage returns at line ends)

-Binary file with form feed at file end

-ASCII file with form feed at file end

All other printer names will be treated the same as lpb.

Note:

Some versions of lpr strip out all control characters and carriage return characters from a file before it is sent, making it unsuitable for bit-imagefiles or font downloadfiles. In many cases the “-l” option may be used on the lpr command line to prevent this happening (worth tying even if this option is not documented).

The following is an example of sending a text file “txtfile” via lpr with a form feed appended:

lpr -Plpaf txtfile

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