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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:17:07 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, larry@marso.com
Subject: Re: "too large" error network printing
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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
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Subject: Re: "too large" error network printing
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In-Reply-To: <19980318120755.00709@marso.com>; from "Larry S. Marso" on Wed Mar 18 12:07:55 GMT 1998
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In the last episode (Mar 18), Larry S. Marso said:
> My print server has lot's of /var/spool space and a minfree that's very
> small.  Printing files on the print server itself works on files of
> extreme size.
> 
> However, printing from one of the networked clients of any file size
> greater than about one meg generates a "too large" error, and the file is
> truncated to about one meg on the print server.
> 
> Is there something else that needs to be configured to widen the pipeline
> from client to print server?

Try adding :mx#0: to the appropriate line in /etc/printcap; that will
set the maximum job size to infinity.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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