1 .TH PAPSTATUS 8 "17 Dec 1991"
3 papstatus \- get the status of an AppleTalk-connected printer
16 is used to obtain the current status message from an AppleTalk connected
17 printer. It uses the Printer Access Protocol (PAP) to obtain the
20 If no printer is specified on the command line,
22 looks for a file called
24 in the current directory and reads it to obtain the name of a printer. The
26 file should contain a single line of the form
43 respectively. Blank lines and lines the begin with a
51 and the zone of the local host, respectively.
55 Turns on a debugging mode that prints some extra information to standard error.
64 files to find a printer name). The syntax for
66 is the same as discussed above for the
73 only gets the status from the printer once. If
75 is specified, the status is obtained repeatedly, with a sleep of
77 seconds between inquiring the printer.
81 file that contains printer name