I think that other LPD based print systems have solved this in a number
of (nonstandard) ways. I think I have seen at least one system (HPUX?)
that used 2 letters, using a prefix like dfAA for the data files.
Another, more sneaky solution is to use the unused initial letters,
so you get data file prefixes like: dfA...dfZ,dfa..dfz, efA..efz,
ffA... Neither of these are strictly compliant with RFC1179, but if
the software is written carefully, they can work, while preserving
necessary RFC1179 compliance.
> Robert McCallum wrote:
> >
> > hey thanks...
> > I was not sure if this list even worked.
> > I guess I don't get my own submissions like with the other lists I am on.
> > thanks for the workaround... is this 52 file limit in LPRng or is it some other
> > dependency??
> > I cannot believe that no one else has had this problem.
> > thanks for the help.
> > Robert
>
> IIRC, its a problem with the LPD protocol - files have to be referenced
> by A-Z then a-z, so you only get two runs through the alphabet in a
> single print job. So, another solution would be to make them seperate
> print jobs:
>
> cd /tmp/labels
> ls lab* | xargs -i lp -dlabel2 {}
>
> --
> Jules Agee
> System Administrator
> Pacific Coast Feather Co.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] x284
>
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