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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: remote lpr/lpd problems...
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:56:52 GMT
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I'm having an interesting problem with the lpd on 386bsd.

Namely, if I (from a remote lpr) print a small file, things work
fine.  However, if I remotely print a large file the lpd on 386bsd
"looses the connection."

Looking at the lpd sources, I see such a message emitted if a read
from the incoming socket returns <= 0; which is reasonable. (i.e. it
either got EOF sooner than expected or there was a problem.)

The number of bytes read before this happens is *always* 5120; which is
a rather suspicious number.

So, I was wondering if there is a limit somewhere I'm running into.  I
couldn't find anything, but thought I would post and ask..


	- Thanks -
	- Dave Rivers -
	(rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
	(sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))


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