examines the spooling area used by for printing files on the line
printer, and reports the status of the specified jobs or all jobs
associated with a user.  invoked without any arguments reports on
any jobs currently in the queue.  Options: Specify  a  particular
printer, otherwise the default line printer is used (or the value
of the variable in the environment). All other arguments supplied
are  interpreted  as user names or job numbers to filter out only
those jobs of interest.  Information about each of the files com-
prising  the job entry is printed.  Normally, only as much infor-
mation as will fit on one line is displayed.  For each	job  sub-
mitted	(i.e. invocation of reports the user's name, current rank
in the queue, the names of files  comprising  the  job,  the  job
identifier (a number which may be supplied to for removing a spe-
cific job), and the total size in bytes.  Job ordering is  depen-
dent  on the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is
supposed to be (First in First Out).  File names comprising a job
may  be  unavailable  (when  is  used as a sink in a pipeline) in
which case the file is indicated  as  ``(standard  input)''.   If
warns  that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunc-
tion), the command can be used to restart the printer daemon.  If
the  following	environment variable exists, it is used by Speci-
fies an alternate default printer.  To determine printer  charac-
teristics.   The spooling directory, as determined from printcap.
Control files specifying jobs.	The lock file to obtain the  cur-
rently active job.  For manipulating the screen for repeated dis-
play.  appeared in Due to the dynamic nature of  the  information
in  the spooling directory may report unreliably.  Output format-
ting is sensitive to the line length of the  terminal;	this  can
results  in widely spaced columns.  Unable to open various files.
The lock file being malformed.	Garbage files when  there  is  no
daemon active, but files in the spooling directory.



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