pr3287 Manual Page

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Synopsis
Description
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Synopsis

Description

If the hostname is prefixed with l:, the connection will be made through an SSL tunnel.

A specific LU name to use may be specified by prepending it to the hostname with an `@'. Multiple LU names to try can be separated by commas. An empty LU can be placed in the list with an extra comma.

The port to connect to defaults to telnet. This can be overridden by appending a port to the hostname with a colon `:'.

Options

-assoc LUname

Causes the session to be associated with the specified LUname.

-blanklines

In LU3 formatted mode, print blank lines even if they are all NULLs or control characters. (This is a violation of the 3270 printer protocol, but some hosts require it.)

-charset name

Specifies an alternate EBCDIC-to-ASCII mapping. The default maps the EBCDIC U.S. English character set to ISO 8859-1. Other built-in character sets are bracket, which corresponds to many older IBM hosts' mapping of the [ and ] characters, and the non-U.S. character sets german, finnish, uk, norwegian, french, icelandic and belgian. These correspond to the x3270 character sets of the same names.

If name begins with an @, then the balance is intepreted as the name of a file containing character mappings. The file contains whitespace-separated tokens. Each token is a number specifying an EBCDIC code, an = character, and a number specifying the 8-bit ASCII character used to print that code. Blank lines and lines beginning with # are ignored.

If name begins with an =, then the balance is intepreted as a string containing mapping tokens, as in a file.

For example, a file defining the uk character set would look like this:

# UK character set
0x4a=0x24 0x5b=0xa3 0xa1=0xaf
0xb0=0xa2 0xb1=0x5b 0xba=0x5e
0xbc=0x7e

-command command

Specifies the command to run for each print job. The default is lpr.

-crlf

Causes newline characters in the output to be expanded to carriage-return/linefeed sequences.

-daemon

Causes pr3287 to become a daemon (background) process.

-ignoreeoj

Ignore TN3270E PRINT-EOJ commands, relying on UNBIND commands to indicate the ends of print jobs.

-ffskip

Causes pr3287 to ignore a FF (formfeed) order if it occurs at the top of a page.

-ffthru

In SCS mode, causes pr3287 to pass FF (formfeed) orders through to the printer as ASCII formfeed characters, rather than simulating them based on the values of the MPL (maximum presentation line) and TM (top margin) parameters.

-reconnect

Causes pr3287 to reconnect to the host, whenever the connection is broken. There is a 5-second delay between reconnect attempts, to reduce network thrashing for down or misconfigured hosts.

-trace

Turns on data stream tracing. Trace information is saved in the file /tmp/x3trc.pid.

Signals

SIGUSR1 causes the current print job to be flushed without otherwise affecting the pr3287 process.

See Also

Copyrights

Modifications Copyright © 1993-1996, 1997, 1999-2003 by Paul Mattes.
Original X11 Port Copyright © 1990 by Jeff Sparkes.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

All Rights Reserved. GTRC hereby grants public use of this software. Derivative works based on this software must incorporate this copyright notice.

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