LPBANNER(1)

💖 LPBANNER 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about the banner squad: lpbanner, pclbanner, and psbanner — aka the little filter fam from the LPRng manual pages. they make printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript and honestly? iconic behavior. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner — printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript. yes that's three whole queens sharing one name section, we love a trio. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lpbanner [ -l length ] [ -w width ] [ -P printer ] [ -L bannername ] [
-n loginname ] [ -h host ] [ -J jobtitle ] [ -C class ] [ -? option args
] [ all ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie. lpbanner prints a simple banner on a fixed size font printer. pclbanner generates a PCL banner. and psbanner generates a PostScript banner. three flavors, same energy. 💅

all the info that's gonna get printed is passed in through command line arguments. no cap.

and then — this is the part that's giving vintage — in order to be compatible with vintage line printer spoolers, it reads a line from standard input, but ignores the information. like it looks at it, says "mmhm", and moves on. main character energy fr fr. 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -w width — page width in characters (default 132).
• -l length — page length in lines (default 60).
• -P printer — the printer queue for banner information.
• -L bannername — the name used on the banner as the main name.
• -n loginname — the name used on the banner as the login name.
• -h host — the name used on the banner as the host name.
• -J jobtitle — the string used on the banner as the main title.
• -C class — the string used on the banner as the class.
• -? value — every other option and argument provided by LPRng is ignored. not deleted, not judged, just... ignored. it's giving "i'm not reading all that but go off." 💀

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

the following exit values are returned:

• zero (0) — successful completion. slay. ✅
• non-zero (!=0) — an error occurred. something went wrong bestie, we're sobbing. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1), lprng_certs(1), lprng_index_certs(1).

(yes, lpd.conf(5) shows up twice. we're not fixing it. it wanted to be here. periodt.) 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.com>. the blueprint, the founder, the moment. 👑

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. (yes, the manpage literally says "a enhanced". we are preserving that typo like a precious artifact, no cap. 💖)

the LPRng developer mailing list is lprng-devel@lists.sourceforge.net — subscribe by visiting https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending mail to lprng-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word subscribe in the body. yes, the actual word, in the actual body, that's the whole vibe check. ✨

the software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, you understood it, you're literally a banner expert now. 💅✨

this has been LPBANNER(1) from LPRng, dated 2006-12-09 — yes we're serving vintage, that's the aesthetic, it's giving archival realness 🎀 and that's the whole manual, mwah 💖🦋🌸