6.2 UNIX Printing

Output spooled on the virtual printer as defined above, will now be sent to the named pipe and routed to NIC. Before you edit the files above, be sure that the following daemon is running:

/usr/nic/lpr_print /dev/nic/<printer_name>

printfast 10001 &

6.2.3.9.2 AIX Print Commands

The AIX lp command works slightly differently than the lp com- mand for other System V Release 4 systems. The following lp com- mands can be used to print files:

#lp -d<queue_name> <filename>

or

#lp -d<queue_name>:<device_name> <file_name>

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