refman.ps

[Raymond Venneker]

> From grass-lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil Sun May 23 18:08:52 1993
> Sender: lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil
> Reply-To: grassu-list at max.cecer.army.mil
> To: grassu-list at max.cecer.army.mil
> Subject: refman.ps
> 
> Netters--
> 
> 	I have not been able to print either the GRASS 4.1 reference
> 	manual or the programming manual-- the files are too big for
> 	our printer and or printserver:
> 
> pick2/usr3/camann[7] lpr -P4 /home3/labnet/grass4.1/doc/refman.ps
> lpr: /home3/labnet/grass4.1/doc/refman.ps: copy file is too large
> 
> pick2/usr3/camann[8] lpr -P4 /home3/labnet/grass4.1/doc/progman.ps
> lpr: /home3/labnet/grass4.1/doc/progman.ps: copy file is too large
> 
> These postscript files are 7.4 and 3.5 megabytes, respectively!  Before
> I attempt the laborious process of editting these files by hand, has
> anyone else already broken them up?  Perhaps the folks at CERL could
> post them in 1 meg or so chunks?
> 
> 			Thanks,
> 
> 			Mike Camann
> 

Mike, our lpr (SunOs) has a -s option that creates a symbolic link
rather than copying the entire file. Check out the man page.

Good luck -- Raymond