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- From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
- Subject: Re: 220 printing is a dog
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.150659.25276@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: University of Montana
- References: <1992Nov19.232014.23938@selway.umt.edu> <1992Nov20.111943.4422@opus40.ix.de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:06:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.111943.4422@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >|>
- >What about your swap partition? Space enough?
-
- Swap is more than enough (92MB).
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