ASKPRINTER(8)

📦 version 1.0.16, in debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 ASKPRINTER 💖

okay bestie, welcome to askPrinter(8) — yeah it's a section 8 manual page, that's the sysadmin zone, we're literally in the backstage area of your system rn 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

askPrinter — a whole program whose entire job is detecting the name of your EPSON printer 🖨️💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

askPrinter [dev-path-to-printer]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional little argument and she's off 🌸

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this manual page documents the askPrinter command, briefly. short and sweet, we don't over-explain in this house 💖

real talk though — this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original program does not have a manual page. not one. zero. nothing. so we made one, you're welcome 🫶

askPrinter is a helper program — a little sidekick — that helps you configure Mtink. that's her whole purpose in life and honestly? iconic. she knows her lane 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). a summary of options is included below, because of course it is, we don't gatekeep here 😌

🎀 Options for askPrinter

  • dev-path-to-printer — specify the device file associated with the printer. depending on what kind of printer you have, it could be /dev/parport, /dev/usb/lp0... like, it's giving "your printer lives somewhere on your filesystem and you gotta tell her where" energy. no cap 🦋

✨ LICENSE ✨

this manual page was written by Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others — share the love, bestie 💜).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this manpage. legal stuff but make it slay ✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these too, they're in the group chat:

  • /usr/share/doc/mtink/html/index.html
  • mtink (1)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

  • Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>
    • Author. 👑 (yes that's the actual role, we love a credited author)

Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Sylvain Le Gall

and that's the whole page, bestie!! source status is a lil [FIXME: source] (we've all been there, it's a mood 😭) and this was dated Nov 17, 2006 — vintage, honestly, it's giving retro tech royalty 🎀💖

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