Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:36:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Shaun <shaun@download.net> To: "Yingjun (Ian) He" <Ian.He@dal.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813213448.2115A-100000@guardian.thecore.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9808141242290.1003-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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.
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