From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 15:11:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656E837B419 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g3AM9km01860; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:09:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3CB4B949.2010207@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:14:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "doug.fee@unisys.com" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LPR spool size limit References: <3CB4ABDB.4050001@unisys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG doug.fee@unisys.com wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know of a way to print large (>500 pages) documents? For > example, when I spooled a 603 page document lpr choked. It truncated > the file. I tried setting the mx=0 option in the printcap file but to > no avail. Can LPR even print large documents? If not, does anyone have > any alternatives? How large is your spool file? The only time I've seen lpd choke on a file is when the file filled up the partition. How much space do you have available in /var/spool? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message