From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 18:37:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thecore.com (guardian.thecore.com [206.136.149.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26545 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shaun@download.net) Received: from localhost (shaun@localhost) by thecore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02215; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:36:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Shaun X-Sender: shaun@guardian.thecore.com Reply-To: Shaun To: "Yingjun (Ian) He" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Yingjun (Ian) He wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to print a postscript file from my network printer. > Everytime when the file is large I could not print it out and > get the followint message: > > lpr: dis_sm0.ps: copy file is too large Try adding the -s option to lpr. >From the manpage: -s Use symbolic links. Usually files are copied to the spool direc- tory. The -s option will use symlink(2) to link data files rather than trying to copy them so large files can be printed. This means the files should not be modified or removed until they have been printed. +-- http://www.download.net ------------- http://www.thecore.com --+ | Shaun M. Finn TechnoCore Communications, Inc. | | shaun@download.net Internet Web Services & Access | | VOICE: (732)928-7400 P.O. Box 106 | | FAX: (732)928-7402 Jackson, NJ 08527-0106 | +----- ICQ 3842675 ------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message