[5982] in SIPB bug reports
Re: LATEX: >lpr: : copy file is too large
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Fri May 17 02:48:09 1996
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: "Thomas Grueninger" <grueni@cadlab2.mit.edu>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: grueni@cadlab2.mit.edu's message of 16 May 1996 (07:48:43 EDT).
<9605160748.ZM4177@cadlab2.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 02:47:46 EDT
Hi.
> <file.eps>lpr: : copy file is too large
This is a problem with lpr, not dvips. Unfortunately, lpr used to
have a bug which prevented it from dealing properly when a really
large amount of data was piped in. However, it will print large files
correctly; see below for a workaround.
I thought that this bug had been fixed. If it hasn't, I would like to
track down the problem...
Have you had this problem on any public Athena machines?
What Athena release is cadlab2 running? (You can find this out by
running "machtype -L".)
In the meantime, the best way to work around this is to send the
output of dvips to a file and print the file; for example, instead of
dvips -Pprintername thesis.dvi
you can try using
dvips -o/tmp/thesis.ps thesis.dvi
lpr -Pprintername /tmp/thesis.ps
Let us know if this doesn't help.
--Albert Dvornik
bert@mit.edu
