printop

Langue: en

Version: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:07:50 -0500 (ubuntu - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

printop - graphical interface to LPRng print system

SYNOPSIS

printop

DESCRIPTION

printop is a wish8.0(1) program that gives you a graphical interface to control the printers and queues for UNIX-like systems using the lpd(8), daemon from the LPRng print system. It uses the commands lpq(1), lpc(1),and lprm(1) to get information and control the printers and you just have to click with your mouse. In a large network it shows you all the printers and gives you the full functionality of the lprng-commands, so you have a good overview of what is happening.

CONFIGURATION

printop uses two files to defines which printers are shown in printop.

You can create printer entries with the command:

         printer button {printer-name} {menu-name}
 

printer-name can be a tcl-regexp, so that "^d.*" would mean: Create a button for all the printers that begin with the letter d. {menu-name} can be empty {}, so that the buttons are created directly in the choose-main-menu, or it can be the name of a submenu (or the path to a subsubmenu etc).

You can create new submenus in the main-menu with the command:

         printer menu "Menu-Name" {widget-name}
 

Menu-Name is the name that is displayed in the menus, widget- name is the name of the created widget. If you create a submenu {menu_a}, then you can create a subsubmenu with the command:

         printer menu "MySubSubMenu" {submen} {men_a}
 

and adding the menu-names to a path you can have subsubsubmenus:

         printer menu "SubSubSubmenu" {subsubmen} {men_a.submen}
 

With the button command you can then insert buttons to your menu.

FILES

/etc/printcap
Host configuration of printer capability database.
/etc/printop/printop.conf
Host configuration of printop.
~/.printop.conf
User configuration of printop.

SEE ALSO

lpc(1), lpd(8), lpq(1), lprm(1), wish8.0(1)
http:/doc/printop/README
http://www.astart.com/lprng/lprng.html
http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/cbx/computer/computer_misc.html

AUTHOR

printop is written by Olaf Gellert <gellert@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. Modified by Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> as part of packaging for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Manual page also added by Jean Pierre LeJacq.