From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: dangerous bug in lprm
Article-I.D.: rabbit.644
Posted: Thu Jul 29 11:10:36 1982
Received: Fri Jul 30 03:53:42 1982
References: sri-unix.2300

If you are trying to kill a file in the line printer queue, you must
in fact truncate it before removing it.  Otherwise if it is being printed
at the instant you remove it, it will print to the end and there will be
nothing you can do.