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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!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!usenet.cat.pdx.edu!sirius.cs.pdx.edu!daver From: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: lpr: copy file too large Date: 5 Apr 1997 19:26:49 GMT Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5i691p$bom$1@spaceghost.cat.pdx.edu> References: <3344a560.3482046@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38605 Alan Hunter (A.Hunter@dunaad.co.uk) 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 If I remember correctly, there is a flag to the printer definition in the printcap file. I think it is mx#0. I think this allows files of any size to be printed. I hope this helps, Dave