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- From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
- Subject: Re: 220 printing is a dog
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.111943.4422@opus40.ix.de>
- Sender: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
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- References: <1992Nov19.232014.23938@selway.umt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:19:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.232014.23938@selway.umt.edu>, mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
- |> I have an RS/6000 220 (AIX 3.2.0) to which I attached a
- |> color postscript printer via the parallel port. When
- |> this thing is sending a job to the printer, it is virtually
- |> dead in the water. Admittedly, color postscript files are
- |> large, but there must be some way of arbitrating things
- |> so that the machine remains in a reasonably useful state
- |> while printing (the 220 has 32MB of memory and a local disk).
- |>
- |> Any suggestions on how I can try to deal with this?
- |>
- |> *************************************************************************
- |> ( Charlie McGuire | Tel. : (406) 243-4618 )
- |> ( Research Sys Mgr | Fax : (406) 243-4076 )
- |> ( The University of Montana | )
- |> ( Computer Science Dept | E-Mail: mcguire@huckle.cs.umt.edu )
- |> ( SS409 | )
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- |>
- What about your swap partition? Space enough?
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