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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:35:45 -0400
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
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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:
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> 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 outp=
ut is proper.
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> The action is the same with or without the change to lpdspool suggested i=
n the
>  *printer configuration* document.
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>  This problem appeared about 6 months ago, possibly after a replica/pull.
>  Before that I noticed no delay in printing man pages this way.
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>  The printer is an NEC 1800N with 12MB memory, driven via lpt. It's a pos=
tscript printer.
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>   Suggestions, please.
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> Thanks,
>  -Tom
>