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- From: pgoujard@infocom.UUCP (Philippe Goujard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Automated accounting of pages printed to PostScript printers
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 23:14:38 GMT
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- Carl Krasnor (krasnor@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
- : As many followers of this group have asked for before, we require software
- : to automatically perform accounting of pages printed to a PostScript
- : printer. It could be as simple as a running tally of pages printed for
- : each user ID on a system.
- :
-
- My notion of postscript may be a little bit rusty but if I remember
- correctly only the "showpage" command in postscript actually prints a page.
- You can send 500kb of graphic information but only when receiving the
- showpage your page will be printed (and if the printer receives an
- end-of-job (Ctrl D) before the showpage all the work is discarded).
-
- So, working on that assumption can a simple "grep showpage | wc -l" sort of
- script do the trick?
-
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