System V printing system
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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
. A system running this print architecture could traditionally be identified by the use of the user command lp
as the primary interface to the print system, as opposed to the BSD
lpr
command, though some systems provide lpr as an alias to lp.
Typical user commands available to the SysV print system are:
The original System V printing system remains proprietary; however, the Solaris print system, heavily modified from the original, is open source
as part of the OpenSolaris
project. The Common Unix Printing System
emulates both System V and Berkeley print architectures on the interface level, though its internal architecture is different from both.
UNIX System V
Unix System V, commonly abbreviated SysV , is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by American Telephone & Telegraph and first released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, termed Releases 1, 2, 3 and 4...
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
SCO OpenServer
SCO OpenServer, previously SCO UNIX and SCO Open Desktop , is, misleadingly, a closed source version of the Unix computer operating system developed by Santa Cruz Operation and now maintained by the SCO Group....
. A system running this print architecture could traditionally be identified by the use of the user command lp
Lp (Unix)
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...
as the primary interface to the print system, as opposed to the BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995...
lpr
Line Printer Daemon protocol
The Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol is a network protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The original implementation of LPD was in the Berkeley printing system in the BSD UNIX operating system; the LPRng project also supports that protocol...
command, though some systems provide lpr as an alias to lp.
Typical user commands available to the SysV print system are:
- lpLp (Unix)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 user command to print - lpstat -- shows the current print queue
- cancel -- deletes a job from the print queue
- lpadmin -- a sysadmin command that configures the print system
- lpmove -- a sysadmin command that moves jobs between queues
The original System V printing system remains proprietary; however, the Solaris print system, heavily modified from the original, is open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
as part of the OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software...
project. The Common Unix Printing System
Common Unix Printing System
CUPS is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer to act as a print server...
emulates both System V and Berkeley print architectures on the interface level, though its internal architecture is different from both.