PAPSTATUS(8)

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✨ PAPSTATUS(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Netatalk AFP Fileserver Manual 💖 this is papstatus, and it's about to tell you what your printer is thinking.

💅 NAME 💅

papstatus — get the status of an AppleTalk-connected printer 🖨️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

papstatus [-d] [-p printer] [retrytime]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So papstatus is literally your little messenger to an AppleTalk-connected printer 💌 it goes and grabs the printer's current status message for you. It does this using the Printer Access Protocol (PAP) to pull that status info. no cap.

Now, if you don't specify a printer on the command line, papstatus goes looking for a file called .paprc in the current directory and reads it to get the name of a printer 👀 that's the vibe.

The .paprc file should contain a single line of the form:

object:type@zone

where each of object, :type, and @zone are optional 🫶 and heads up: type and zone must be preceded by : and @ respectively. Blank lines and lines that begin with a # are ignored, so go ahead and leave little notes for yourself, it's fine 💖

Also, type and zone default to LaserWriter and the zone of the local host, respectively. slay.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -d — turns on a debugging mode that prints some extra information to standard error 👀 very "let me see the receipts" of you.
  • -p printer — get status from printer, and do not consult any .paprc files to find a printer name. The syntax for printer is the same as discussed above for the .paprc file 💅
  • retrytime — normally, papstatus only gets the status from the printer once. but if you specify retrytime, the status is obtained repeatedly, with a sleep of retrytime seconds between inquiring the printer 🔁 like it's checking in on the printer every retrytime seconds. so clingy. we love it. 🌈

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • .paprc — file that contains printer name 📄✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

nbp(1), pap(1) 🫶 go read those too, they're iconic.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors) — actual legends, every single one 💖

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