I can't confirm this as fact but it make sense.  The number quoted is 
EXACTLY 2GB, a nice "magic" number.

Alan

At 04:19 PM 9/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I think I read somewhere that's the maximum size for a file on ext2.
>
>On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 15:31, Daniel Montagnese wrote:
> > We print big files.  Even with mx#0 ( unlimited size ) in the printcap
> > file, the maximum size of a print file seems to be 2147483647.
> > Is there a way to print bigger files?