NAME

       gspl-plist - dump out GNUspool printers to a shell script

SYNOPSIS

       gspl-plist [ -D dir ] [ -e n ] [ -s ] [ -f ] [ -l ] ptr file outfile

DESCRIPTION

       gspl-plist converts GNUspool printers held in the spool directory to an executable shell script which may
       be used to re-install them. This may be useful for backup purposes or for one stage in upgrade from one
       release of GNUspool to another.

       gspl-plist considers a GNUspool spool directory, by default the current directory, takes the printer
       file, which is usually spshed_pfile, and generates a shell script file outfile, which if executed, would
       recreate the GNUspool printers with the same options.

       N.B. setup files are not copied, this should be done as a separate exercise. In many cases these can be
       separately copied over from one release to the next.

       In addition to options, two arguments are always supplied to gspl-plist.

       Printer list file
           This is the file containing the attributes of the printers, spshed_pfile in the spool directory or as
           relocated by re-specifying "SPOOLDIR".

       Output file
           This file is created by gspl-plist to contain the executable shell script, containing gspl-padd(1)
           commands, which may be used to reinstall the printers.

OPTIONS

       -D directory
               specifies the source directory for the printers and ptr file. It can be specified as $SPOOLDIR or
               "${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnuspool}" etc and the environment and/or gnuspool.conf will be
               interrogated to interpolate the value of the environment variable given.

               If you use this, don't forget to put single quotes around it thus:

                gspl-plist -D '${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnuspool}' ...

               otherwise the shell will try to interpret the "$" construct and not gspl-plist.

       -e n    Tolerate n errors of the kinds denoted by the other options before giving up trying to convert
               the file.

       -f      Ignore format errors (invalid form types etc) in the saved printer file up to the limit of number
               of errors given by the -e option.

       -l      Modify the shell script created so that printers recreated with be "local only" access rather
               than network wide.

       -s      Ignore file size errors in the saved printer file (up to the number of total errors given by the
               -e option.

SEE ALSO

       gspl-cjlist(8), gspl-setspdir(8), gspl-spuconv(8).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  This is free software. You may redistribute copies of
       it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO
       WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR

       John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.