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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!lamarck.sura.net!mother.usf.edu!labyrinth.cftnet.com!amonk From: amonk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (amonk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Remote printing problem Date: 9 Dec 1995 21:00:37 GMT Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4actdl$kkq@mother.usf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eng_ppp_16.eng.usf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello, I am having a problem with the bsd remote printing services. Hopefully, someone has run in to this before and can lend some assistance. The systems are Motorola RISCs with Motorola's SVR3. Everything works fine unless we try to print very large files. Unfortunately, we have the need to run some rather large reports (1000 pages plus). What happens when we run these reports is that it prints approx 350 pages and then chokes out with a "file to large" error. I have checked all available documentation and the only thing that I could come up with was to try adding the -s switch to lpr. This causes lpr to use a symbolic link to the file to be printed rather than move it to the spool directory. It seemed to help a little: we were able to get about 500 pages printed before getting the "file to large" error. This problem is not covered in any documentation that I can find, and I would greatly appreciate it if someone could lend some insight. What I would like to know is, can this be fixed easily or is it possibly a problem in the actual bsd code, like they used int rather than long int? Please email any suggestions to me at: kyle_amon@jabil.com Thanks in advance, Kyle Amon