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From: A.Hunter@dunaad.co.uk (Alan Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: lpr: copy file too large
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 07:38:18 GMT
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printing a large ghostscript file stops with "copy file is too large"
message.  If I fix this in lpr.c thern the process just stops when the spool
file reaches 1,841,325 bytes, wherever the spool directory is located. lpr
-s doesn't help.  How is this fixable?

Thanks
Alan


Alan
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