Korean Solaris User's Guide

Using the mp Utility

The enhanced mp print utility is available in the current Korean Solaris release. You can use mp to print ko files in ko locale or UTF-8 files in ko.UTF-8 locales.

The output from the utility is standard PostScript that you can send to any PostScript printer.

Use the following command to print a file with the mp utility.

system% mp filename | lp

You can also use the utility as a filter because mp accepts stdin stream.

system% cat filename | mp | lp

You can set the utility as a print filter for a line printer. For example, the following command sequence signals the print service that the printer lp1 accepts only mp format files. The command also installs the printer lp1 on port /dev/ttya. See the lpadmin(1M) man page for more details.

system% lpadmin -p lp1 -v /dev/ttya -I MP
system% accept lp1
system% enable lp1 

You can use the following command to add a filter for an LP print service.

system% lpfilter -f filtername -F pathname

The filter converts the default input type to PostScript output with the /usr/bin/mp command.

To print a UTF-8 text file, use a command line such as the following.

system% lp -T MP UTF-8-file

For more details on the mp(1), see the man page.

Using mp as an Xprt (X Print Server) Client

