From: utzoo!utcsrgv!thomson Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: dangerous bug in lprm Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.487 Posted: Thu Jul 29 11:58:58 1982 Received: Thu Jul 29 12:29:39 1982 References: sri-unix.2300 Re: sri-unix.2300 lprm truncates the spool file rather than just unlinking it so that the printer daemon will immediately encounter an endfile and stop printing. Unlinking the file, if the daemon already had it open, would not abort printing. If you adopt Steve Kramer's fix, you will be giving up this ability. Brian Thomson decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!thomson