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From: vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Subject: Re: lpr: copy file is too large
Organization: Telco Consulting
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 04:39:58 GMT
Message-ID: <DJEnMM.Hp4@xenitec.on.ca>
Summary: never mind!
Keywords: printcap
References: <DJEMB8.GsF@xenitec.on.ca>
Sender: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
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In article <DJEMB8.GsF@xenitec.on.ca>,
Vance Shipley <vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> wrote:
>I have a postscript printer installed and working with lpd but if
>the postscript files I print are over say 1.5MB lpr complains that
>"copy file is too large". The job prints but it's not complete.
After a little more poking around I find that there is a paramter which
may be set in the printcap file which determines maximum file size:
mx num 1000 maximum file size (in BUFSIZ
blocks), zero = unlimited
Never mind.
-Vance