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I've posted (in alt.sources) lpcfilt, a program that gropes through the
output of lpc(1) and displays it on your screen.  It can be left up as
a "status" display of all of your printers.  For the Apple folks, as well as
others who have a large number of printers to manage, this will let you know
pretty quick if you are having trouble with your printers and which ones
are having problems.  If you have printers on AppleTalk, lpc gets the status
from the printer and passes it along to lpcfilt.

I don't have a manpage for it yet (in the works), but it only has one
option: lpcfilt [-a].

If you specify the "-a" option, you get to see all of your printers (or as
many will fit on your screen), including idle ones.  If you just say "lpcfilt",
you get to see only the printers that are (trying) to do something useful
(but possibly can't).

I've run it under A/UX and BSD 4.2.  It should work with any standard lpc
utility.  If it doesn't, let me know and I'll try to fix it.  This was a
pretty quick hack to solve a problem I was having managing multiple printers,
and I hope it helps you, too!
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