From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 03:52:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA05742 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:52:26 -0800 Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA05736 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:52:14 -0800 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by nlsys.demon.co.uk (8.6.10/8.6.9) id NAA00825; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 13:50:27 +0100 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 13:50:25 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Speed while printing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just attached a PostScript printer to my machine via /dev/lpt0 and while it prints fine (after hacking /etc/printcap a bit), my machine slows down to a crawl while it is sending stuff to the printer. Is this normal? Printing under Win95 does not show this effect. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk Phone: +44 181 951 1891