From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] man -t cat|lp takes 4min
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:43:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d050d229ae072b1651d0c6188badff43@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2354fe60cfb08fe6e362d4a37fe4ae4b@yourdomain.dom>
>>Alt case: man -t cat>/tmp/cat.ps;cat /tmp/cat.ps>/dev/lpt1data: 40 sec., but
surely that produces a copy of the ditroff not postscript?
did you leave out `|lp -d stdout' in that?
>>Could it be that the fonts are being sent/requested unnecessarily?
lp -d stdout won't include the Lucida fonts, but
lp direct to a printer will add them if needed (which they probably are).
they look to be about 740k bytes.
devlpt sets the parallel port to its original 1980s mode.
it will be slow.
given all that, 4 minutes seems not too surprising.
short of revamping devlpt, i'd suggest you print several pages at once,
make sure it has plenty of paper, and take yourself out for lunch.
(it's not too bad with usb.)
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2005-05-12 21:38 west9
2005-05-13 9:43 ` C H Forsyth [this message]
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2005-05-11 14:52 west9
2005-05-11 23:20 ` boyd, rounin
2005-05-11 23:35 ` Russ Cox
2005-05-12 1:59 ` geoff
2005-05-12 6:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-12 6:26 ` Russ Cox
2005-05-12 6:29 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-12 17:53 ` Jack Johnson
2005-05-13 8:24 ` Bruce Ellis
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