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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 1996 06:10:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: printing large postscript files
Message-ID:  <199602131110.GAA19242@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602130504.WAA21472@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 12, 96 10:04:37 pm

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> 
> > Does anyone know what to do to print out large postscript files and avoid 
> > that error that says "copy file too large"?
> 
> Add the flag mx#0 in your printcap entry.
> 
> rlp|lw|ps|postscript|PostScript|lp1|lw1|postscript1|PostScript1:\
>         :lp=:\
>         :mx#0:\
> .....

I didn't know about that one.  It unlimits the size of the copy.

You can also use "lpr -s" to access the file in place as long as
you realize that you can't change the file until lpd is done with it.

-- 
Peter Dufault               Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
dufault@hda.com             Fax:   508 433 5267



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