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. It is used to add a text file to the print queue
Print job
In computing, a print job is a file or set of files that has been submitted to be printed.Jobs are typically identified by a unique number, and are assigned to a particular destination, usually a printer...
. Because of the text file limitation it is not equivalent to the lpr
Lpr
The lpr command is used on many Unix-like systems to assign jobs to printer queues. The name derives from "lineprinter", though it has become the commonly used command for any sort of printer...
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The lp command is used on many Unix-like systems to assign jobs to printer queues. The name derives from "lineprinter", though it has become the commonly used command for any sort of printer...
The UNIX System V printing system is one of several standard architectures for printing on the UNIX platform, and is typical of commercial System V-based operating systems such as Solaris and SCO OpenServer...
(both available in the CUPS printing system).
The command was introduced in MS-DOS
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
version 2. Another option to print files is to use the copy
Copy (command)
In computing, copy is a command in RT-11, RSX-11, OpenVMS, DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The command copies computer files from one directory to another. The destination defaults to the current working directory. If more than one source file is indicated, the destination must...
LPT is the original, and still common, name of the parallel port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers. It was designed to operate a text printer that used IBM's 8-bit extended ASCII character set. The name derives from the fact that "line printer" was a common generic term at the time for any...
printer ports.
Microsoft Windows
Syntax to print a file:
print [/D:device] drive:][path]filename[...
Arguments:
/D:Device This command-line argument specifies the print device.
drive:\path\filename Specifies the location of the file to be printed.
OS/2
Syntax to print a file:
print [/D:device][/B] [drive:][path] filename[...]
Syntax to cancel a file that is printing or queued:
print [/D:device][/C or /T]
Arguments:
/D:device This argument specifies the print device, for example: /D:LPT1.
drive:\path\filename Specifies the location of the file to be printed.
Flags:
/B Specifies the file is a binary file.
/C Cancels the file that is currently printing.
/T Cancels all files from the print queue, including the file that is currently printing.
DOS
Arguments:
/D device Specifies the name of the print devices. Default value is LPT1.
/P filename Add files in the print queue.
/C filename Removes a file from the print queue.
Flags:
/T Removes all files from the print queue.
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