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From: u-lchoqu%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Summary: Why does TRANSCRIPT send three jobs for each file?
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.184613.23884@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 01:46:13 GMT
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
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In article <1991Feb19.135453.25304@hellgate.utah.edu> I wrote:

	Why does our NeXT send three jobs to the LaserWriter for every
	one file we print?  We're running TRANSCRIPT on a NeXT cube
	running 4.3 BSD UNIX.  The psif.papif appears to be version
	1.2.

Sak Wathanasin replied:

	That's just the way TS works. The first job is to make sure
	that the printer's there, then it sends the job, then it sends
	accounting stuff. They must have had problems with lockups on
	their serial line.

	Earlier versions of TS were even more anti-social: they
	assumed that the printer was online, and hung around waiting
	for a response before moving on to the next phase.

Dan Lanciani responded:

	If I recall correctly, it is doing page accounting by sending
	jobs to return the pagecount before and after each job.

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