la86of - Filter for the Japanese LA86 printer
/usr/lbin/la86of [-c] [-h host] [-i indent] [-l length]
[-L locale] [-n login] [-w width] [accounting_file]
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 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 the login name of the job
owner. This name can contain Japanese characters. Specifies
the page width in columns. The default value is 132.
Specifies the file to record accounting information.
The la86of filter is used to filter text data for the
Japanese LA86 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 la86of 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
LA86 printer.
The LA86-J printer can be configured to use the software
on-demand loading (SoftODL) mechanism to print userdefined
characters (UDCs). For a more detailed description
of SoftODL, see i18n_printing(5).
To enable SoftODL printing, set the ys field 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. Refer to printcap(4) for more
information on these fields and associated options.
The la86of filter can be the specified filter in both the
of and the if fields in the /etc/printcap file. For more
information, see printcap(4).
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
la86of 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).
The lf field (default value is /dev/null) in the
/etc/printcap file specifies the name of the error log.
Commands: lpr(1), pr(1), lpd(8), pac(8)
Files: printcap(4)
Others: i18n_printing(5)
la86of(8)
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