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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in4.uu.net!194.2.222.39!pressimage!oleane!alma.fr!eerie.fr!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!news.sfu.ca!not-for-mail From: wolstena@sfu.ca (Paul Wolstenholme) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Q: LPR printing error - file too large Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:24:58 GMT Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 10 Message-ID: <33d13d72.276057001@news> Reply-To: wolstena@sfu.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: rs6-annex1.sfu.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.01/32.397 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44687 I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 and every time I print a file over about 1M I get an error message from lpr that the file is too large. For the setting in printcap I have set mx=0 which the man page says should allow me to print files of unlimited file size. Does anyone have any suggestions on what the problem might be? Thanks Paul Wolstenholme