Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU!RSILVERMAN From: RSILVERMAN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (Richard Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Limiting file size to LaserWriter Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 89 02:32:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 X-Unparsable-Date: 13-FEB-1989 21:14:11.12 >> I lost the original of this letter, but... Jason from Miami writes >> that he would like to limit the size of files that can be printer to a >> public LaserWriter+ controlled by an AppleShare print spooler. Jason, I don't know about the AppleShare spooler, but you could program the LaserWriter to do it. With our LW, I have prepared a modified version of LaserPrep to implement trailer pages for billing. We download this to the printer when it's turned on, and the printer password is set non-zero. This gives us our trailer pages, and also prevents people from using various versions of the driver and constantly restarting the printer. You could add code to such a scheme to do many things, including aborting a job after some limit of pages has been exceeded. Unfortunately, I don't see any way for the printer to know the size of the file as it comes in, so some paper is wasted anyway. Richard Silverman arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Wesleyan University bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan Middletown, CT CIS: [72727,453] 06457