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On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Michael Reifenberger wrote:

> Hi,
> i have a faxprogram which prints out via lpr.
> Unfortunatly the faxes gets truncated because they are
> too large. I don't want to use 'lpr -s' because I suspect
> the faxprogram to remove the printfile after 'lpr ... printfile'
> returns.
> Could lpr/lpd be changed to handle unlimitided (sort of) files?
> Thanks.
> 

If you add mx#0 to your printcap, it won't choke on large files.

> Bye!
> ----
> Michael Reifenberger
> 

Frank
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