mcneill@uunet.uu.net (mcneill) (12/14/88)
biggers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Mark Biggers): > ...has anyone any ideas on how to > print large (>1mb) postscript files using Transcript? We can't print > outside docs (like the X docs) if all we have is the .PS output. Our > contact with Sun came back with "install SunOS 4.0" to get Transcript bug > fixes - not a solution for the near future. What do you mean by can't print? Does pscomm Die...does ptroff die??? Does only part of the file print?? What is the specific problem? anyway... Transcript works fine here. If your problem is that only part of the file is printed then, it may be caused by a lpr "feature". Default lpr setup only allows files upto 1 megabyte (it truncates the rest of the file) to be printed on remote printers. To fix that, place :mx#0: in the transcript printer entry (in /etc/printcap) on the remote machines (look at the printcap man page for details). Keith D. McNeill | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. uunet!eplrx7!mcneill | Experimental Station (302) 695-7395 | P.O. Box 80357 | Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0357
biggers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Mark Biggers) (12/14/88)
shore@adobe.com (Andrew Shore): > The BSD spooling system can limit spooled file sizes. > The "mx" printcap option sets the limit. > The default is 1Mb. (If you have no "mx" entry, you get that limit!) > Add > :mx#0: > to a printcap entry to allow spooling (and printing) of > files of unlimited size. >... We did have :mx#0: set on both the spooling host and the remote hosts; pretty much the vanilla printcaps from the Transcript set-up software. And (we think) there had been enough room on the /usr/spool filesystem of the spooling host. So today, I suggested to a co-worker that he set "mx" to some arbitrarily LARGE value, and Presto!, we could print out a large PS file (a portion of the new Andrew Toolkit docs) that we could not print out before. A bug? I dunno... But thanks to all for replying... [[ The check for exceeding the "mx" printcap limit is done at queueing time, NOT printing time. If that limit was your problem, then it should give you an error message when you try to submit the job with "lpr". --wnl ]] mark biggers@dg-rtp.dg.com USMail: Data General OR: rti!dg-rtp!biggers 62 Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709