papstatus
is used to obtain the current status message from an AppleTalk connected
printer. It uses the Printer Access Protocol (PAP) to obtain the
status information.
If no printer is specified on the command line,
papstatus
looks for a file called
.paprc
in the current directory and reads it to obtain the name of a printer. The
.paprc
file should contain a single line of the form
object:type@zone
where each of
object,
:type,
and
@zone
are optional.
type
and
zone
must be proceeded by
`:'
and
`@'
respectively. Blank lines and lines the begin with a
`#'
are ignored.
type
and
zone
default to
LaserWriter
and the zone of the local host, respectively.
OPTIONS
-d
Turns on a debugging mode that prints some extra information to standard error.
-pprinter
Get status from
printer
(do not consult any
.paprc
files to find a printer name). The syntax for
printer
is the same as discussed above for the
.paprc
file.
retrytime
Normally,
papstatus
only gets the status from the printer once. If
retrytime
is specified, the status is obtained repeatedly, with a sleep of
retrytime
seconds between inquiring the printer.
