From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 18:52:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F4A37B422 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3B1q9r6484000; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:52:09 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3CB4ABDB.4050001@unisys.com> References: <3CB4ABDB.4050001@unisys.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:52:08 -0400 To: Doug Fee , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: LPR spool size limit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 5:17 PM -0400 4/10/02, 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. I assume you used mx=0, but you really wanted mx#0 (mx is a numerical value, you need to use '#'). >Can LPR even print large documents? If not, does anyone >have any alternatives? Here at RPI we have people printing thousand-page jobs. We also have people sending gigabyte files to our color plotter. Lpr itself shouldn't have any problem as long as you have enough disk space, at least until you're well over a gigabyte. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message