.TH LP 4

.SH NAME

lp \- line printer

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.B lp

device refers to the line printer attached to the parallel port. Any byte

written to this device is printed. Only one process may have the device

open.

.PP

The

.B write (2)

call may return with a smaller count then the number of bytes requested to

write. The next write call is then likely to fail with the error code

.B EAGAIN

if the printer is out of paper, or

.B EIO

if the printer is turned off.

.SH FILES

.TP 10

/dev/lp

Parallel port device.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR lp (1).

.SH BUGS

Only one parallel port is supported.

.SH AUTHOR

Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)