From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 3:21: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CFF37B5E2 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 03:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from webfoot (sdn-ar-004orportP274.dialsprint.net [63.178.68.204]) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA17160; Sat, 6 May 2000 03:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sat, 6 May 2000 03:20:20 -0700 Message-ID: <01BFB70A.0258E740.bduk@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer Reply-To: "bduk@earthlink.net" To: "'Jan Rocho'" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: large files & lpr Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 03:18:40 -0700 Organization: Black Duck Software X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sorry for the HTML email - I'm on someone else's machine and I can't figure out how to get this into text-only mode. Try lpr -s lpr is configured to copy files into a temp directory and print the the copy, that way you can print it, then edit the file while the original is still printing. It limits the maximum file size to prevent filling up /var. You can adjust the filesize it cuts off at (man lpr), but a better choice is just to use the -s option.lpr -s tells it to use a symlink to the original file. You can't change the file while it's printing then, but there are no limits to how big the file can be then. -----Original Message----- From: Jan Rocho [SMTP:jan@flag.blackened.net] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 8:33 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: large files & lpr Hi! I've got a small problem with lpr. Today I tried to print a 2mb file and when I type lpr file.ps I get: lpr: file.ps: copy file is too large I have about 1,6gb free on my harddrive, 160mb in /var I have a HP Deskjet 690C which is configured to use magicfilter and dj550c-filter... that works fine with small files but it seems as if there's a problem with larger files... can I change the filesize limit somewhere? TIA, Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message