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From: wolstena@sfu.ca (Paul Wolstenholme)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Q: LPR printing error - file too large
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:24:58 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
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I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 and every time I print a file over about 1M
I get an error message from lpr that the file is too large.  For the
setting in printcap I have set mx=0 which the man page says should
allow me to print files of unlimited file size.  

Does anyone have any suggestions on what the problem might be?

Thanks

Paul Wolstenholme