Creating a printer emulator to capture PDL/PCL data coming in on port 9100.

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lpbanner

LPBANNER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LPBANNER(1)

NAME

       lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript

SYNOPSIS

       lpbanner  [ -llength ] [ -wwidth ] [ -Pprinter ] [ -Lbannername ] [ -nloginname ] [ -hhost ] [ -Jjobtitle ] [ -Cclass ] [ -?option args ] [
       all ]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       zero (0)       Successful completion.

       non-zero (!=0) An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

       lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1), lprng_certs(1), lprng_index_certs(1).

HISTORY

       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.lprng.com/pub/LPRng.

AUTHOR

       Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.com>.

LPRng								    LPRng-3.9.0 						       LPBANNER(1)

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