LP5250D(1)

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🎀 lp5250d(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, you found the page for lp5250d and honestly? it's giving "quiet little command, huge printer energy" 💅 this is the manpage for it, and I'm gonna walk you through every single bit, no skips, no "eh you don't need that part". we're doing this properly. periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

lp5250d — start an AS/400 printer session 🖨️✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lp5250d [OPTIONS] HOSTNAME

like, that's it. options, then a hostname. the vibes are minimal and I respect it 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

lp5250d connects to an AS/400 over TCP/IP and sets you up with a printer session that emulates an IBM 3812 printer 🖨️👑

the way it works: this printer session team-tags with scs2ascii and host print transform on the AS/400, so your AS/400 spooled files end up printed on a local printer. iconic collab fr fr.

when you're done and wanna dip out of a printer session? send it a SIGTERM signal with kill(1). that's the exit door 🚪✨

printing support requires named session support, which is available for most recent versions of OS/400 — but heads up, it's only supplied with V4R3 and later versions. for V3R2, V3R7, V4R1 and V4R2, please go look at informational APAR II10918 📌

✨ OPTIONS ✨

there's more lp5250d options than this, bestie — those extra ones live over in the tn5250rc(5) man page 👀

  • -u, --user=USER — run lp5250d as USER 💁‍♀️
  • -H, --help — display this help and exit 🆘
  • -v, --version — output version information and exit 🏷️

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

okay these are the good part. actual receipts 📸

lp5250d env.DEVNAME=LINPRT1 env.IBMMFRTYPMDL='*HP4' as400sys

connect to as400sys as the printer LINPRT1, and use host print transform on the AS/400 to print to an HP Laserjet or compatible, using lpr. classic. 🖨️💜

lp5250d env.DEVNAME=LINPRT1 env.IBMMFRTYPMDL='*OKI184IBM'
outputcommand=''scs2ascii | lpr -Poki' as400sys

print to an Okidata Microline 184 Turbo on the local print queue named oki. very specific, very cute, we love a niche printer moment 🎀

lp5250d env.DEVNAME=PSPRT outputcommand='scs2ps > scs$$.ps' as400sys

convert spooled files into PostScript® files. fancy ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? please report any bugs you find to https://github.com/tn5250/tn5250/issues

don't sit on it, tell the devs, they wanna know 🙈🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

tn5250rc(5), tn5250(1), scs2ascii(1), scs2ps(1), https://tn5250.github.io/, RFC1205, RFC2877, II10918.

iykyk, go read those next 📚✨

tn5250 is copyright 1997 - 2001 Michael Madore. This manpage is copyright 1999 - 2001 Carey Evans.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

⭐ TRADEMARKS ⭐

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. gotta give credit where it's due 💅

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

tn5250 was written by Michael Madore, Jay Felice, Scott Klement and others; see the AUTHORS file for details. This manual page was written by Carey Evans.

absolute legends, all of them 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially a lp5250d expert now 🫶 this little icon was dated 12 November 2001 and shipped with the tn5250 crew's General Commands Manual — go print something iconic ✨🖨️💖

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