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From: abrams@dan.ccd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer)
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Subject: Re: Truncated lpr printouts
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	We do a lot of print spooling of large files(3Mb), and yes there is
a hard coded size limit in lpd which can be overidden with the mx#0 in 
/etc/printcap.

From man printcap:

mx   num  1000               maximum    file    size     (in
                             BUFSIZ                 blocks),


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