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From: archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert)
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Subject: Re: MacMinix problems, cron and lpr
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Date: 8 Dec 90 17:34:11 GMT
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paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes:

>cron appears to work ok when started from a root login, but when I inserted it
>into the rc script I had a system crash some five minutes after booting. This
>was preceeded by some regular (once per second) disk access on my internal 
>floppy drive (/dev/fd0) although there was no disk inserted in the drive.

Cron has some problems that are universal to the 68K versions I think.
There have been a couple of posted fixes.

>lpr, and other methods of printing (eg: cat file > /dev/lp) prints out on my
>Imagewriter II ok, except that it seems to print about a page and a half, and
>then throw a new page. My guess is that the Imagewriter is throwing the page 
>automatically, and not MacMinix. If so, then how do I disable the page throws?

The line printer driver stores up a page at a time, and printing 1.5 pages
will result in only one page being printed.  Use pr(1) which pads the file
to a multiple of a page when printing (e.g., pr file | lpr).

Joe Pickert