| 1 | .TH PSINTERFACE 8 "19 August 1992" "Adobe Systems" |
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| 2 | \" Copyright (c) 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/psinterface.8p,v 1.2 1996-10-14 05:09:48 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 | psinterface \- TranScript spooler filters for PostScript printers |
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| 9 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
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| 10 | .B psinterface |
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| 11 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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| 12 | The |
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| 13 | .I psinterface |
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| 14 | shell script is the printer interface program as supplied to |
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| 15 | lpadmin. |
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| 16 | The options are as specified in the |
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| 17 | .I Line Printer Spooling Utilities Guide. |
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| 18 | This shell script reads a printer-specific shell script named |
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| 19 | transcript/\fIprinter\fP.opt |
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| 20 | below the current working directory (the lp spooling directory) which |
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| 21 | may do additional printer-specific processing. |
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| 22 | The \fIprinter\fP.opt script is often used to redefine the values of |
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| 23 | some environment variables that regulate page-reversal, |
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| 24 | how to print banner pages, etc. for specific printers. See below. |
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| 25 | .PP |
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| 26 | .I Psinterface |
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| 27 | is responsible for the complete processing of the print job, invoking |
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| 28 | programs to accomplish banner pages, document management, and |
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| 29 | communications. |
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| 30 | If job banner break pages are enabled for this printer (and requested |
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| 31 | for this job), |
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| 32 | .I psinterface |
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| 33 | will invoke |
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| 34 | psbanner |
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| 35 | to format a banner break page. |
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| 36 | .I Psinterface |
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| 37 | currently recognizes three \*(TS-specific spooling options (presented to |
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| 38 | lp |
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| 39 | with the |
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| 40 | .B \-o |
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| 41 | flag). The |
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| 42 | .B h |
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| 43 | option suppresses the printing of a banner break page, the |
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| 44 | .B r |
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| 45 | option suppresses page reversal, and the |
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| 46 | .B m |
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| 47 | option causes |
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| 48 | .I psinterface |
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| 49 | to send any stream output from the execution of the user's \*(PS |
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| 50 | print file back to the user as mail. |
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| 51 | .PP |
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| 52 | The |
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| 53 | .I psinterface |
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| 54 | script also invokes a communications program for communicating with the |
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| 55 | printer. Communications programs are provided for serial |
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| 56 | communications, Centronix parallel communications, Appletalk |
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| 57 | communications, and Ethernet |
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| 58 | communications with either a QMS printer or a MiLAN FastPort printer |
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| 59 | server. |
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| 60 | .I Psinterface |
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| 61 | and the communications program |
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| 62 | manage a printer log file named |
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| 63 | transcript/\fIprinter\fP-log (under the lp spooling directory). |
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| 64 | This file contains a log of each job processed, as well as any |
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| 65 | error output from the printer. In particular, it contains messages |
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| 66 | regarding the printer being out of paper, jammed, etc. Doing a |
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| 67 | tail |
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| 68 | on this file will help determine the printer's status. |
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| 69 | .PP |
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| 70 | .B "psinterface Environment Variables." |
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| 71 | .br |
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| 72 | A number of environment variables are used by the spooler filters. |
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| 73 | These are listed below. |
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| 74 | The |
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| 75 | .I psinterface |
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| 76 | script sets the initial value for each, |
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| 77 | and the \fIprinter\fP.opt file can be used to change the value for a |
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| 78 | particular printer. |
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| 79 | Note that Bourne shell syntax must be used in both |
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| 80 | .I psinterface, |
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| 81 | and the \fIprinter\fP.opt file. |
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| 82 | Many of the variables take a number value and specify whether or not |
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| 83 | an action should take place; 1 means do the action and |
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| 84 | 0 means don't do it. |
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| 85 | .PP |
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| 86 | .ta 2.25i |
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| 87 | .tc |
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| 88 | BANNERFIRST=\fInumber\fP print a banner at start of the job |
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| 89 | .br |
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| 90 | BANNERLAST=\fInumber\fP print a banner at end of the job |
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| 91 | .br |
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| 92 | BANNERPRO=\fIfile name\fP banner prologue file |
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| 93 | .br |
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| 94 | VERBOSELOG=\fInumber\fP print verbose log messages |
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| 95 | .br |
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| 96 | PSTEMPDIR=\fIdirectory name\fP directory for temporary files |
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| 97 | .PP |
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| 98 | You can change the banner page for a particular printer by redefining |
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| 99 | the BANNERPRO value. |
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| 100 | .SH FILES |
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| 101 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 102 | XPSLIBDIRX/ |
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| 103 | \*(TS library, prologues, filters, etc |
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| 104 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 105 | \fIspooldir\fP/transcript/\fIprinter\fP-log |
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| 106 | printer log file |
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| 107 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 108 | \fIspooldir\fP/transcript/\fIprinter\fP.opt |
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| 109 | printer-specific options script |
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| 110 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 111 | XPSTEMPDIRX/b* |
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| 112 | banner break page temporary file generated by |
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| 113 | .IR psinterface/psbanner |
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| 114 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 115 | XPSTEMPDIRX/o* |
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| 116 | job output temporary file for mail |
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| 117 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 118 | XPSTEMPDIRX/t* |
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| 119 | temporary file to format text files |
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| 120 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 121 | transcript(1), lp(1), lpstat(1), lpsched(1M), lpadmin(1M), psdman(8), |
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| 122 | pscomm(8), qmscomm(8), lpcomm(8), fpcomm(8), capcomm(8) |
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| 123 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 124 | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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| 125 | .SH NOTES |
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| 126 | \*(PS is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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| 127 | .br |
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| 128 | \*(TS is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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