The
lpbanner
program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size font printer,
the
pclbanner
program generates a PCL banner and the
psbanner
program generates a PostScript banner.
All information to be printed is passed using command line arguements.
In order to be compatible with vintage line printer spoolers,
reads a line form standard input, but ignores the information.
OPTIONS
-w width
Page width in characters (default 132).
-l length
Page length in lines (default 60).
-P printer
printer queue for banner information.
-L bannername
Name used on banner as main name.
-n loginname
Name used on banner as login name.
-h host
Name used on banner as host name.
-J jobtitle
String used on banner as main title.
-C class
String used on banner as class.
-? value
All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored.
LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system
with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software.
The LPRng mailing list is lprng@lprng.com;
subscribe by sending mail to lprng-request@lprng.com with
the word subscribe in the body.
The software is available from ftp://ftp.astart.com/pub/LPRng.