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     IPS(C)		      XENIX System V			IPS(C)

     Name
	  ips- Imagen serial sequence packet protocol handler
	  ipbs- Imagen parallel byte stream protocol handler

     Syntax
	  /usr/lib/ips [ -D string ] [ -a file ] [ -l file ] [ -i
	  printer ] [-oprs] [ -u uid] [ file ]

     Description
	  ips and ipbs are the lowest level of Imagen-provided support
	  software.  Each handles a different form of supported
	  communications.  They present a quite similar view to higher
	  level software, allowing that to be relatively independent
	  of communications method.

	  ips sends files to Imagen printers using the sequence packet
	  protocol (see the appropriate IMAGEN system manual for
	  further information).	 This protocol provides for error
	  detection, retransmission, status reporting, and detection
	  of unrecoverable errors.

	  ipbs supports the parallel byte stream communications
	  method, which provides for flow control but no error
	  detection and correction.

	  The following information is common to all these programs.

	  If no file name is given, stdin is read.

	  The following options are recognized:

	  -D   The next argument is taken as a string to be prepended
	       to the file being sent.	If an unrecoverable failure
	       occurs during transmission and the file can be resent,
	       this string will be resent as well.

	  -a   The next argument is taken as the name of a file in
	       which to store printer status information.

	  -i   The following argument is the device name of the
	       printer.

	  -l   The next argument is taken as the name of a file in
	       which to store logging information.

	  -o   Normally ips expects to send to stdout and does not
	       expect to have to set port characteristics.  If an
	       explicit device name is given with the -i switch, both
	       of these assumptions are reversed.  This switch serves
	       to toggle the assumption on the need to set up port
	       characteristics.	 This switch does not apply to ipbs

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     IPS(C)		      XENIX System V			IPS(C)

	       which does not set up its ports.

	  -r   If ips is given an explicit file name to send, it will
	       assume the file to be rewindable.  Stdin is assumed to
	       be not rewindable.  In a manner similar to the -o
	       switch above, this switch toggles this assumption.

	  -s   Regardless of what other indications may have been
	       given, use stdout as the printer.

	  -uuid
	       Uid is a string representing the user identification
	       number of the person to be credited with this printing
	       job.

     See Also
	  imprint(C), lp(C), lpinit(C)

     Notes
	  An interface for Imagen printers is found in the directory
	  /usr/spool/lp/model.	The file imagen.s provides an
	  interface to an Imagen printer in serial mode.  The file
	  imagen.p provides an interface to an Imagen printer in
	  parallel mode.

	  The lpinit program can be used to initialize an Imagen
	  printer in either serial or parallel mode.

	  When using an IMAGEN printer in parallel printer mode (using
	  ipbs , you must specify the quote character as ASCII 2 and
	  the EOF character as ASCII 4. Control characters must be
	  ``taken as is''. Refer to the IMAGEN system manuals provided
	  with the printer, for information on specifying these
	  characters in the printer configuration.

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