Truncated lpr printouts

[Robert Hartman]

In article <14875 at hacgate.UUCP> wdelv at devnet3.UUCP (walt del vecchio) writes:
>
>...  Since the main difference between full and truncated printouts appears
>to be whether the application is run from a terminal or lpd(8), what can
>I do to resolve this?  Is there some internal shell limit for print size or
>pipe throughput or something like the csh limit in the bourne shells which
>are execl(3)'d and system(3)'d?  Does lpd(8) have internal limits set?

I believe that it is lpd(8) that has an approx. 1MByte limit on its internal
data buffer.

>  Do I have to use lpr(1) -s, meaning producing another file after the pipe
>through the filter and then depositing it on the remote machine which has
>the paper printer attached and running the lpr command in the background
>so the application program isn't tied up waiting for a free printer?

I believe that you do.  Sorry.

>  Thanks for reading this far.
>
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>  Walter L. Del Vecchio - Hughes Aircraft Co. - Fullerton, CA - (714) 732-5588
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-r