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- From: tim@hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White)
- Subject: Re: Plotter problems
- Message-ID: <tim.721490137@andy.hssc.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 13:55:37 GMT
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- minieri@enterprise.gatech.edu (Joe Minieri) writes:
-
- >We've got two different plotters here - an HP and a Versatec
- >(running in HP "mode") - we have SS2's running 4.1.1 here.
- >Recently we have been experiencing some weird problems - it
- >seems like plot files that are bigger then about 1020000 bytes
- >long plot for a while and then just quit - and then next plot starts
- >right over that one. This happens on both plotters. We had an
- >HP service rep out here and he said that the problem was "suns
- >problem". I can't see why this is suns problem since we don't
- >have this problem with big files on either of the postscript
- >printers we have. Anyone know about anything like this?
-
- Try adding mx#0 to the /etc/printcap definition for the plotter. Sets
- plot/print files size to be unlimited. I assume you are driving this
- with lpd.
-
- See the printcap manpage for details.
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- Tim White University of South Carolina
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