From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] man -t cat|lp takes 4min
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 02:26:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05051123266a590a3a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d1905051123206efa7c0@mail.gmail.com>
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.
russ
On 5/12/05, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> 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 <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.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-12 6:26 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
2005-05-12 1:59 ` geoff
2005-05-12 6:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-12 6:26 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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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