Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:52:08 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Doug Fee <doug.fee@unisys.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LPR spool size limit Message-ID: <p05101511b8da9bd8018c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3CB4ABDB.4050001@unisys.com> References: <3CB4ABDB.4050001@unisys.com>
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At 5:17 PM -0400 4/10/02, doug.fee@unisys.com wrote: >Hi All, > >Does anyone know of a way to print large (>500 pages) documents? >For example, when I spooled a 603 page document lpr choked. >It truncated the file. I tried setting the mx=0 option in >the printcap file but to no avail. I assume you used mx=0, but you really wanted mx#0 (mx is a numerical value, you need to use '#'). >Can LPR even print large documents? If not, does anyone >have any alternatives? Here at RPI we have people printing thousand-page jobs. We also have people sending gigabyte files to our color plotter. Lpr itself shouldn't have any problem as long as you have enough disk space, at least until you're well over a gigabyte. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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