Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!sun4nl!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko
From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: lpr: copy file too large
Organization: private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <E8687L.JH@yedi.iaf.nl>
References: <3344a560.3482046@news.demon.co.uk> <3345B0C4.2781E494@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 15:26:09 GMT
Lines: 39
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38566
Chooka <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> writes:
>Alan Hunter wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> ---
>> CRU Islay +44 1496 302286
>> Isle of Islay A.Hunter@dunaad.co.uk
>>
>Quite simply.
>Add more memory to your printer.....
Interesting suggestion but maybe:
man printcap
...
mx num 1000 maximum file size (in
BUFSIZ
blocks), zero = unlimited
...
Wilko
--
Wilko
_ ____________________________________________________________________
| / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands
|/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda