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21.4 Print With 'lpr -d' From Shell
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The precise command to print a DVI file depends on your system
installation.  Two common ones are 'dvips foo.dvi -o' and 'lpr -d
foo.dvi'.

  For example, the following commands will (perhaps) suffice to sort the
indices, format, and print the 'Bison Manual':

     tex bison.texinfo
     texindex bison.??
     tex bison.texinfo
     lpr -d bison.dvi

(Remember that the shell commands may be different at your site; but
these are commonly used versions.)

  Using the 'texi2dvi' shell script (see the previous section):

     texi2dvi bison.texinfo
     lpr -d bison.dvi
     # or perhaps dvips bison.dvi -o

  'lpr' is a standard program on Unix systems, but it is usually absent
on MS-DOS/MS-Windows.  Some network packages come with a program named
'lpr', but these are usually limited to sending files to a print server
over the network, and generally don't support the '-d' option.  If you
are unfortunate enough to work on one of these systems, you have several
alternative ways of printing DVI files:

   * Find and install a Unix-like 'lpr' program, or its clone.  If you
     can do that, you will be able to print DVI files just like
     described above.

   * Send the DVI files to a network printer queue for DVI files.  Some
     network printers have special queues for printing DVI files.  You
     should be able to set up your network software to send files to
     that queue.  In some cases, the version of 'lpr' which comes with
     your network software will have a special option to send a file to
     specific queues, like this:

          lpr -Qdvi -hprint.server.domain bison.dvi

   * Convert the DVI file to a Postscript or PCL file and send it to
     your local printer.  Note: (dvips)Invoking Dvips, and the man
     pages for 'dvilj', for detailed description of these tools.  Once
     the DVI file is converted to the format your local printer
     understands directly, just send it to the appropriate port, usually
     'PRN'.