lpr of large files

Laura Armstrong larmstro at ddn-wms.arpa
Fri Mar 31 02:04:15 AEST 1989



Reply to  Rich Winkel UMC Math Department <MATHRICH at umcvmb.missouri.edu>

>I have a diskless sun 4 (os 4.0) connected to a disk server which has a
>laserwriter attached to it.  I'd like to be able to print large (>1 MB)
>postscript files, but the man page says:
>
>1. 'spooled' files (printed without the -s option) are truncated at 1Mb
>2. remote workstations can't use the -s option
>
>Is there a way to for me to print large files without logging in to the
>server?

Adding mx#0 in the printcap entry of the printer
will allow an unlimited printer file size.  Note, you are
still limited by the amount of space allotted to the spool
area.  See man printcap for more info. 

Laura Armstrong         larmstro at ddn-wms.arpa



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