Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:21:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: "Yingjun (Ian) He" <Ian.He@dal.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980814091711.4952A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980813165514.0094e460@is.dal.ca>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Yingjun (Ian) He wrote: > I am trying to print a postscript file from my network printer. > Everytime when the file is large I could not print it out and > get the followint message: > > lpr: dis_sm0.ps: copy file is too large Probably your disk space available to the line printer spooler is to small. Typically the path to the spool directories is /var/spool/lpd. Check the available space with `df -k /var/spool/lpd'. In any case, you can print the file with `lpr -P<ps-printer> -s dis_sm0.ps'. The `-s' avoids copying of the file to the spool directory. Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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