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From: RAY@CRVAX.SRI.COM.UUCP
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Subject: Re(2): accounting and $GETs from source
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 01:03:58 EDT
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With postscript printers the problem with accounting is a little more
difficult than just asking the printer for the pages.   This comes from
the fact that the printer can generate messages at any time.  Another
thing you need to consider are what to do when the printer is turned off
or is disconnected.

Having written a symbiont to deal with a Laserwriter plus the accounting
problem is the most difficult part.  The one thing I did like about
doing it was operator requests generated by the symbiont when the 
laserwriter encounters a printer problem.  The operators hate me...:-)

Ray