la84of(8) [osf1 man page]

la84of(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 la84of(8)

NAME

       la84of - Filter for the Japanese LA84 printer

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lbin/la84of [-c] [-h host] [-i indent] [-l length] [-L locale] [-n login] [-w width] [accounting_file]

OPTIONS

       Prints  control	characters.  Specifies the host name of the job owner. This name can contain Japanese characters.  Specifies the amount of
       indentation. The default value is no (no indentation).  Specifies the login name of the job owner. This name can contain  Japanese  charac-
       ters.  Specifies the page length in lines. The default value is 66.  Specifies the printer codeset. This value must be a valid locale name.
       The default value is ja_JP.deckanji.  Specifies page width in columns. The default value is 132.

OPERANDS

       Specifies the file to record accounting information.

DESCRIPTION

       The la84of filter is used to filter text data for the Japanese LA84 printer. The filter handles the device dependencies of the printer  and
       performs  accounting  functions. At print job completion times, accounting records are written to the file specified by the af field in the
       /etc/printcap file.

       The la84of filter can handle plain text files and files that have been preprocessed by nroff.  Either kind of file  can	contain  non-ASCII
       characters.  The  filter  translates  nroff  control  sequences	for  underlining, superscripting, and subscripting into the proper control
       sequences for the LA84 printer.

       The la84of filter can be the specified filter in both the of and the if fields in the  /etc/printcap  file.  For  a  description  of  these
       fields, see printcap(4).

       The  LA84-J  printer  can  be configured to use the software on-demand loading (SoftODL) mechanism to print user-defined characters (UDCs).
       Refer to i18n_printing(5) for information about SoftODL.

       To enable SoftODL printing, set the ys value in /etc/printcap to 256.  You can also set the default SoftODL database, style,  and  size	by
       using  the  odldb  and  odlstyle options of the ya field.  If you specify a value for the yt field, use fifo.  See printcap(4) for detailed
       information on these fields and their associated options.

NOTES

       The lpr command supports a number of options and associated arguments to enable localization features supported by  various  printers.  The
       following can be used with the la84of print filter: To specify the SoftODL database path To specify SoftODL font style and size

       For a complete description of the -A option and its arguments, refer to lpr(1).

ERRORS

       The lf field (default value is /dev/null) in the /etc/printcap file specifies the name of the error log.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: lpr(1), pr(1), lpd(8), pac(8)

       Files: printcap(4)

       Others: i18n_printing(5)

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