Your system manager can set up a local print queue to handle print jobs for files sent from a remote UNIX host. To print UNIX files on an OpenVMS printer, the UNIX user enters the lpr command. (For more information, see the appropriate UNIX documentation.) Local queues that are set up to receive UNIX print jobs support layup definition files. These are files are supported only on OpenVMS and are used to set the following layup features: borders, sheet margins, alternating sheet margins, pages per sheet, first page, page order, and page grid.
1 – Examples
The following example sends UNIX file /usr/stanton/recent.cnts to OpenVMS print queue REMOTE_QUEUE4 and specifies the formatting defined in the layup file called layup3. The REMOTE_QUEUE4 print queue is set up as a remote queue in the printcap file by the system manager. % lpr -Llayup3 -Premote_queue4 /usr/stanton/recent.cnts