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| 1 | .TH LP 4
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | lp \- line printer
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| 4 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 5 | The
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| 6 | .B lp
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| 7 | device refers to the line printer attached to the parallel port. Any byte
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| 8 | written to this device is printed. Only one process may have the device
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| 9 | open.
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| 10 | .PP
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| 11 | The
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| 12 | .B write (2)
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| 13 | call may return with a smaller count then the number of bytes requested to
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| 14 | write. The next write call is then likely to fail with the error code
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| 15 | .B EAGAIN
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| 16 | if the printer is out of paper, or
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| 17 | .B EIO
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| 18 | if the printer is turned off.
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| 19 | .SH FILES
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| 20 | .TP 10
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| 21 | /dev/lp
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| 22 | Parallel port device.
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| 23 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 24 | .BR lp (1).
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| 25 | .SH BUGS
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| 26 | Only one parallel port is supported.
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| 27 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 28 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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