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<h1><a name="ACCOUNTINGREF">Chapter 18. Accounting</a></h1>
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<dt>18.5. <a href="x9562.htm">Accessing Printer Hardware
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<p>In Academic institutions, avoiding printing accounting has
been regarded as a challenge, an ongoing game of fat cat and
poor starving mouse, between the brutal and corrupt
Administration and the poor, downtrodden, over-charged
student. We will disregard the fact that if most students put
as much effort into their studies as in finding ways to avoid
accounting procedures then they would be Rhodes Scholar
material, but I digress...</p>
<p>There are two approaches to printing accounting: use
software determine the number of pages that should be printed
or use a hardware pagecounter facility on the printer to
accurately determine the number of pages used. While the
software method works well in a relatively error and security
compromise free environment and where print jobs do not jam,
for accurate account a hardware level pagecounter or some
other method must be used. LPRng provides facilities to use
either method to determine page counts.</p>
<p>There are also two methods available to store the actual
accounting information: the simple <i class="EMPHASIS">save
to file</i> method and the more complex <i class=
"EMPHASIS">save to program</i> method. LPRng provides support
for both methods.</p>
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="ACCOUNTINGSERVER">18.1.
Accounting Printcap Options</a></h1>
<p>The accounting facilities are controlled and enabled by
the following entries in the printcap file.</p>
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<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">af</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">NULL</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">accounting file
name</td>
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<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">as</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">"jobstart $H $n $P $k
$b $t"</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">accounting info for
job start</td>
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<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">ae</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">"jobend $H $n $P $k
$b $t"</td>
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job end</td>
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<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">FALSE</td>
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<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">la</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">TRUE</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">do accounting for
'local' printer</td>
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<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">ar</td>
<td align="LEFT" valign="TOP">FALSE</td>
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