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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: lpt0 hosing system
Date: 21 Sep 1994 20:20:36 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Yesterday while printing a large text file to /dev/lpt0 the mouse/keyboard
response time increased dramatically. The system was next to being unusable.

I printed a large postscript file using ghostscript the day before without
the above mentioned effect.

lptcontrol -p seems to solve the problem, but ... why???
And why went printing with ghostscript just fine?

The connected printer is a HP Deskjet 520, if that matters anything.


Paddy
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