Chris, find your printer entry in the printcap file located in '/etc'. to the entry add 'm#0' - this will put no limit on the file size to print. Don't know why this isn't added to the initial file from the start - but I guess there is a good reason for it in a network environment. :)
Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing a problem with lpr in a networked environment. I have > one Dell PC, with 32 megs ram, running debian 0.93R6. The kernel is > 1.2.13, stock source, with the the apple-talk patches for that kernel > version compiled in. Whenever anyone tries to print using netscape > (version 1.1, 1.12, or 2.01) from the console, if the resulting file is > over 1 megabyte, Netscape produces the error > > lpr: :copy file is too large > > If the page is printed to a file, which is then printed with lpr, the > error is the same, except it includes the name of the file between the > two colons. > > This happens with any files (not just those produced by Netscape) that > are over one megabyte in size. > > The printcap does nothing but call a filter to pass the file to an > apple-talk interpreter, which sends to a postscript filter. > > I can manually invoke the filter and send files of any size to the > printer. So, the error is generated either in lpr or in lpd. > > Has anybody experienced this before? Is there a fix? I checked the both > printing how-to's, but didn't see any mention of this error. > > Chris Stromsoe > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
