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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Printer accounting and cutoff from UNIX: is it possible?
Message-ID: <1902@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 90 14:24:58 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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>Because the system won't crash if the printer runs out of paper,
>but it will if it runs out of swap space!

True, but I have seen a unix system (Vax 750, 4.2BSD) hang because the
console had run out of paper!  Putting in a new box of paper fixed the
problem.

-- Richard

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