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Information Terminals

Information terminals (infoterms) can be found in all major lab areas, and provide useful information pertaining to the current state of the lab. Each infoterm screen is divided into several areas:

• A lab usage summary providing an overall snapshot of the number of free, booked, and used machines in each lab.
• The booking status of individual machines. You can use these to get an indication of how many machines have been booked in the current slot, and to which machine you have been allocated if you have made a booking. For more information on making bookings see section 1.5 on page . Particular information about the sky terminal display can be found in Taking Up Your Bookings (section 1.5.4, page ).
• Print queue information indicating the status of printers, how far down the queue your job(s) are, along with the type and size of files being printed. This information is updated every 5 seconds or so as jobs progress up the queue.

  You can view this information from your own xterm by using the lpq command, the general form of which is:

    % lpq -Pprintername

For more information on the lpq command and checking printer queues, please see section 2.2.14 on page .

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