Patrick,
Thanks much! This looks like it will solve my problem.
A few comments:
As of 3.8.2, the lpq man page and the lpq "usage" message know nothing
of the "-v" option.
Section 19.6 of the HowTo ("lpq Requests") has the message string as:
\009printer [id]* \n LPRng extension- verbose
I think it should be octal.
Finally, since you, me, and probably lots of others are building
edifices around "lpq -v", it would be nice if its output format were
documented. To prevent surprises. I hate surprises.
-Rick
Patrick wrote:
> See the lpq -v format. This is probably what you want... cause I do
> exactly the same thing:
>
> h110: {104} % lpq -v |head
> Printer: lp@h110 Printing: no
> Aborted: no
> Spooling: no
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Server: no server active
> SPOOLCONTROL=
> change=0
> printing_aborted=0
> printing_disabled=0
> Status: subserver process pid 69361 exit status 'JSUCC' at 09:27:17.713
>
> You can get this format by using the following LPRng request:
>
> \011printername\n
>
> h110: {104} % printf "\011lp\n" | nc localhost 515
>
> As they say, your mileage may vary.
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