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Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:20:59 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] man -t cat|lp takes 4min
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only a guess but i think gs is to blame.  15 years ago i spent a lot
of time constructing a postscript page that would take 5 minutes.
and that was a 68020 dinosaur engine.

use an older gs or just wait ... and wait ....

brucee

On 5/12/05, geoff@collyer.net <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:
> I wonder if lp is waiting for something to time out.  You might try
> `lp -D' and see if that tells you anything.