From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 03:04:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA00815 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:04:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00808 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:04:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA19242; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 06:10:28 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199602131110.GAA19242@hda.com> Subject: Re: printing large postscript files To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 06:10:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602130504.WAA21472@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 12, 96 10:04:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Does anyone know what to do to print out large postscript files and avoid > > that error that says "copy file too large"? > > Add the flag mx#0 in your printcap entry. > > rlp|lw|ps|postscript|PostScript|lp1|lw1|postscript1|PostScript1:\ > :lp=:\ > :mx#0:\ > ..... I didn't know about that one. It unlimits the size of the copy. You can also use "lpr -s" to access the file in place as long as you realize that you can't change the file until lpd is done with it. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267