NAME

       vtprtoff,vtprton - turn off or on printer attached to local terminal

SYNOPSIS

       vtprtoff [ -dDeEhlqQNtvw ] [ -L vtprintcap ] [ -T termtype ] [ -V device ]

       vtprton [ -dDeEhlqQNtvw ] [ -L vtprintcap ] [ -T termtype ] [ -V device ]

DESCRIPTION

       vtprtoff is a simple program that turns off (or on) redirection of ASCII text to a printer connected to a
       terminal or terminal emulator.  It uses terminal escape sequences to achieve this end.

OPTIONS

       -d     Use the tty device file instead of stdout for output.  This is defined as /dev/tty on this system.
              (This is operating system specific and may vary from system to system.)

       -D     Use the stdout stream for output, rather than a tty device file.

       -e     Forces vtprtoff to ignore the TERM environment variable and use the builtin control codes instead.

       -E     Undoes  the  effect  of  the  -e  option,  which  allows  vtprtoff  to attempt to find an entry in
              /etc/vtprintcap for the TERM value and use the corresponding control codes.

       -h     Print out a simple usage message.

       -l     Print out the license agreement.

       -L vtprintcap
              Specifies an alternate file to use instead of /etc/vtprintcap.

       -q     Quiet mode.  Suppress various status messages from being displayed.

       -Q     Cancels the effect of the -q option, allowing normal progress reporting to occur.

       -t     Force the use of the TERM variable to perform a look up of the control sequences  to  be  used  in
              /etc/vtprintcap.  If an entry in that file can't be found, vtprtoff will abort with an error.

       -T termtype
              Use  the  value  of termtype instead of the value of the TERM environment variable when performing
              lookups in /etc/vtprintcap.

       -v     Display version information.

       -V device
              Specifies an alternate device file instead of /dev/tty to use.

       -w     Display important warranty waiver information.  NO WARRANTY!

ENVIRONMENT

       TERM   the type of the terminal vtprtoff will assume is being used.

       VTPRINT
              string of options to be used by vtprtoff.

AUTHOR

       vtprtoff was written by Garrett D'Amore, on June 5, 1994 and last modified on October 25,  1994.   It  is
       heavily  derived  from  a  similar  program,  called  lprint,  by the same author.  He can be reached via
       Internet e-mail at garrett@sciences.sdsu.edu.

DISTRIBUTION

       The latest version of vtprtoff is available as part of the  vtprint  package,  and  can  be  obtained  by
       anonymous  ftp  at  ftp.sdsu.edu  in  the /pub/vtprint directory.  Please read the INDEX and README files
       before downloading.

       If you do not have ftp availability, then you can request a uuencoded copy of vtprint be sent to you  via
       e-mail  from the author.  The author is also willing to make other arrangements as needed, within certain
       limitations.

COPYRIGHT

       vtprtoff is copyrighted 1994, by Garrett D'Amore.  It may be freely redistributed or modified, so long as
       this  and  any other copyright notices are included in their original form with the program.  The user is
       granted the right to use this program without limitation.

DISCLAIMER

       vtprtoff is provided WITHOUT WARRANTY.  The user agrees to indemnify the author from any claims of damage
       or loss arising from the use of or inability to use this program.  In other words, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

FILES

       /etc/vtprintcap

SEE ALSO

       lpr(1), vtprint(1), vtprintcap(5)