From: Russ Cox <russcox@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
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:35:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05051116355d9a9627@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22bb19f15d9940fd026539b04e5e0c6b@yourdomain.dom>
Try man -t cat | lp -dstdout >/tmp/cat.ps
cat /tmp/cat.ps >/dev/lpt1data
and see which is taking the long time.
Presumably it's the cat to lpt1data,
but devlpt hasn't changed in at least 3 years.
Russ
On 5/11/05, west9@worldnet.att.net <west9@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> With, for example, man -t cat|lp the printer light starts blinking right after
> <return>. It then takes about 4 minutes before printing begins; the output is proper.
>
> The action is the same with or without the change to lpdspool suggested in the
> *printer configuration* document.
>
> This problem appeared about 6 months ago, possibly after a replica/pull.
> Before that I noticed no delay in printing man pages this way.
>
> The printer is an NEC 1800N with 12MB memory, driven via lpt. It's a postscript printer.
>
> Suggestions, please.
>
> Thanks,
> -Tom
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-11 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 14:52 west9
2005-05-11 23:20 ` boyd, rounin
2005-05-11 23:35 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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
2005-05-12 21:38 west9
2005-05-13 9:43 ` C H Forsyth
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