From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d19050511232946785197@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:29:47 +1000 From: Bruce Ellis To: Russ Cox Subject: Re: [9fans] man -t cat|lp takes 4min In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <22bb19f15d9940fd026539b04e5e0c6b@yourdomain.dom> <775b8d1905051123206efa7c0@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 49c31d5c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 *shouldn't* is not a scientific term. did we try something older that WORKED. brucee On 5/12/05, Russ Cox wrote: > while gs is often to blame, i doubt it is to blame > in this case -- he's using a postscript printer, so > gs shouldn't even be involved. >=20 > russ >=20 > On 5/12/05, Bruce Ellis wrote: > > 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 wrote: > > > I wonder if lp is waiting for something to time out. You might try > > > `lp -D' and see if that tells you anything. > > >