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pri

Print ASCII or POSTSCRIPT files.

Synopsis

pri [-m mode] [-p paper] [-P printer] [-t type] [-w] [file1 [file2 ...]]

Description

pri prints ASCII or POSTSCRIPT files on a POSTSCRIPT printer with a variety of formatting options. If no files are specified the input is taken from stdin.

If the file is in standard POSTSCRIPT form in which the first line begins with %! it will be sent to the POSTSCRIPT printer without conversion. Otherwise, it will be converted to POSTSCRIPT using the lwf_a (p) utility. This behaviour can be explicitly overridden with the -t option.

If no printer is specified via the -P option, the printer is that returned by the prd (p) command.

Options

A space is allowed between the option letter and its value (if any).

-mmode

Print mode for ASCII files (doesn't apply to POSTSCRIPT):

p Portrait mode.
l Landscape mode.
72 Two-column portrait mode for files with lines not exceeding 72 characters in length.
80 Two-column landscape mode for files with lines not exceeding 80 characters in length.

-ppaper

Paper type (doesn't apply to POSTSCRIPT):

3 or A3 Metric A3
4 or A3 Metric A4
l or letter Letter

-Pprinter

Printer to use instead of the default (see prd (p)). pri recognizes a ghostview pseudo-printer which may be used to ``print'' the file to a ghostview POSTSCRIPT previewer on a workstation.

-ttype

Input file type.

txt ASCII text file.
ps POSTSCRIPT file.

-w

Wait for the print queue to empty before submitting each job. pri checks the state of the queue once a minute, and will wait for up to one hour before submitting the job.

All other options are passed to lwf_a (p).

Resources

• printer*paper: Paper type -

  A3 metric A3
  A4 metric A4 (default)
  letter American letter size

Examples

The command:

   pri -m 80 aips.h

would print aips.h in two-column landscape format.

See also

getrc (p), query AIPS++ resource database.
lwf_a (p), POSTSCRIPT filter.
pra (p), print AIPS++ class implementation files.
prd (p), report the default printer.
prm (p), delete entries from the printer queue.
prq (p), list contents of the default printer queue.

Author

Original: 1992/03/04 by Mark Calabretta, ATNF.