From: Thilo Jahke (jahke@amoeba.stgt.sub.org)
Date: 03/31/93 

From: jahke@amoeba.stgt.sub.org (Thilo Jahke)
Subject: Re: change lpr file size limitation
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 10:04:22 GMT

In article <1993Mar26.063536.3409@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, andersch@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Werner Anderschitz) writes:
|>
|> How can I change the file size limitation of lpr.
|>
|> If I like to print a file > 1024 kB lpr says
|> file to large and copys only 1024 kB in the spooldirectory.
|>
|>

I suggest RTFM e.g. man printcap ... it says:

...
mx num 1000 maximum file size (in BUFSIZ
                                                 blocks), zero = unlimited
...

that means that you should put :mx#0: into /etc/printcap!

Thilo 

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