w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (10/19/89)
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From: richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain)
I have uploaded new versions of the programs LPR and LPQ to SIMTEL20.
<msdos.printer>
LPR-LPQ3.ARC Utilities to enhance DOS's PRINT.COM
They fix a bug with wildcard arguments to lpr, and a problem with
printing files in the root directory. Lpq has had a printer-reset
added to the release-suspended-print-queue command, hopefully to cure
a problem with printers hanging. This file LPR-LPQ3.ARC replaces file
LPR-LPQ2.ARC in directory PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER>.
Brief recap:
LPR and LPQ are two utilities to work with the standard MSDOS
background printing program and enhance it's usefulness.
LPR lets you pipe standard input into a spool file, which is then
passed to the print queue maintained by the DOS print.com utility.
File arguments (with wildcards) to lpr are also passed to print.
LPQ is a utility to display and manipulate the print queue. It
displays the files in the queue, each with a job number, file size,
and the time of entry (if they were inserted by LPR and not PRINT).
In addition, it can cancel individual files by job number, cancel all
jobs files, or move a given job to the head of the queue. It can also
suspend print operations (thus leaving the printer port free to other
applications such as word processors), and then restore the queue and
resume printing later. The percentage already printed is displayed
for the file at the head of the queue.
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Thanks, Richard!
--Keith Petersen
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