From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 14 02:56:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA03360 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 02:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA03340 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 02:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (font@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id EAA11712; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 04:55:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (font@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id EAA15891; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 04:55:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 04:55:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Font To: questions@freebsd.org cc: font@mcs.net Subject: Printing pauses, why? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've started to set up printing on a FreeBSD 2.2-9706xx-RELENG box and the instructions from the Handbook seem to be pretty thorough. In fact, printing seems to work from the box to the Panasonic KX-P4400 printer I have hooked up. However, when I spool something (with "lptest 80 50 | lpr"), the printer receives part of the output right away, then it WAITS FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES, then seems to get the rest of the output and prints it. The filter I'm using does emit a form feed at the end. Does anyone have any idea why printing pauses for so long? I haven't changed much from the GENERIC kernel except to add tun0. Could this pause be coming from whether the printer is configured for polling or interrupts? Thanks, dw A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers font to be sent to beneficiaries and senders of UCE/SPAM. @ mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.