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Shell Print Using lpr -d

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: