| 1 | .TH PSCOMM 8 "19 August 1992" "Adobe Systems" |
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| 2 | \" Copyright (c) 1985,1987,1992 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. |
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| 3 | \" ATTN GOVERNMENT END USERS: See notice of rights in file XPSLIBDIRX/Notice |
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| 4 | \" RCSID: $Header: /afs/dev.mit.edu/source/repository/third/transcript/man/pscomm.sysv,v 1.1.1.1 1996-10-07 20:25:39 ghudson Exp $ |
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| 5 | .ds PS P\s-2OST\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2 |
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| 6 | .ds TS T\s-2RAN\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2 |
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| 7 | .SH NAME |
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| 8 | pscomm \(em\*(TS serial communications filter for \*(PS printers |
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| 9 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
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| 10 | .B XPSLIBDIRX/pscomm |
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| 11 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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| 12 | This is the low-level \*(TS serial communication filter for use by the |
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| 13 | System V line printer spooling system. It is called from the |
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| 14 | .I psinterface |
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| 15 | shell script. |
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| 16 | The program |
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| 17 | .I pscomm |
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| 18 | is the lowest level filter. It manages communication with the printer, |
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| 19 | error handling, status reporting, etc. |
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| 20 | Psinterface |
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| 21 | and |
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| 22 | .I pscomm |
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| 23 | manage a printer log file named |
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| 24 | transcript/\fIprinter\fP-log (under the lp spooling directory). |
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| 25 | This file contains a log of each job processed, as well as any |
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| 26 | error output from the printer. In particular, it contains messages |
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| 27 | regarding the printer being out of paper, jammed, etc. Doing a |
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| 28 | tail |
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| 29 | on this file will help determine the printer's status. |
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| 30 | .PP |
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| 31 | .SH ENVIRONMENT |
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| 32 | .IP VERBOSELOG=\fInumber\fP |
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| 33 | print verbose log messages |
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| 34 | .SH FILES |
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| 35 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 36 | \fIspooldir\fP/transcript/\fIprinter\fP-log |
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| 37 | printer log file |
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| 38 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 39 | transcript(1), lp(1), lpstat(1), lpsched(1M), lpadmin(1M), psinterface(8) |
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| 40 | .br |
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| 41 | .I System V Line Printer Spooling Utilities |
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| 42 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 43 | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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| 44 | .SH NOTES |
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| 45 | \*(PS is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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| 46 | .br |
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| 47 | \*(TS is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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| 48 | .br |
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| 49 | Unix is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. |
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