printop - graphical interface to LPRng print system
printop is a tcl program
that gives you a tk graphical interface
to control the printers and queues for UNIX-like systems using the lpd daemon from the
LPRng print
system. It uses the commands lpq, lpc and lprm to get
information and control the printers and you just have to click with
your mouse. In a large network it shows you all the printers and gives
you the full functionality of the LPRng commands, so you
have a good overview of what is happening.
printop uses two files to defines which printers are shown
in printop. You can create printer entries with the
command:
printer button {printer-name} {menu-name}
printer-name can be a tcl-regexp, so that
"^d.*" would mean: Create a button for all the printers
that begin with the letter d. {menu-name} can be empty
{}, so that the buttons are created directly in the
choose-main-menu, or it can be the name of a submenu (or
the path to a subsubmenu etc).
You can create new submenus in the main-menu with the command:
printer menu "Menu-Name" {widget-name}
Menu-Name is the name that is displayed in the menus,
widget-name is the name of the created widget. If you
create a submenu {menu_a}, then you can create a subsubmenu
with the command:
printer menu "MySubSubMenu" {submen} {men_a}
and adding the menu-names to a path you can have subsubsubmenus:
printer menu "SubSubSubmenu" {subsubmen} {men_a.submen}
With the button command you can then insert buttons to your menu.
~/.printop.conf
printop is written by Olaf Gellert.
Modified by Jean Pierre
LeJacq as part of packaging for the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution. Manual page also added by Jean Pierre LeJacq.