Error while reading trailing nul - No such file or directory

[Helge Blischke]

Hertig Lukas wrote:
> 
> I can print from a w2k printserver to the linux printserver via cups-lpd. If
> the spool file is larger than 2 GB I receive the following error:
> 
> Jul  6 10:45:56 pr01 cups-lpd[4091]: Receive print job for test
> Jul  6 10:48:03 pr01 cups-lpd[4091]: Error while reading trailing nul - No
> such file or directory
> Jul  6 10:48:03 pr01 cups-lpd[4091]: Closing connection
> 
> I tried to print to a remote printserver (JetDirect) or to the local
> Parallel Port
> 

It is because cupd-lpd thinks of integer numbes to be represented
by 32 bit entities in two's complement notation. 

I'm not sure how far CUPS supports "large files" (at least on 64-bit
systems).

Helge

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