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From: sunloop!oconnor!porsche!miker@central.sun.com (Mike Raffety)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: accounting errors in Transcript
Keywords: Software
Message-ID: <8903151720.AA09311@porsche>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:18:15 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 11:20:15 CST
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 220, message 5 of 16

Basically, an "accounting error 3" (the ONLY "accounting error" in our
source for Transcript; no "1" or "2"; version 2.1 for Sun) means that
start and end page numbers don't make sense (i.e., less than zero, not in
logical order, etc.).  Relevant code fragment:

    if( start > end || start < 0 || end < 0 ) {
        fprintf(stderr,"%s: accounting error 3, %ld %ld\n",start,end);

The "start" and "end" are the pagecounts that PostScript automatically
keeps track of internally (inside the printer itself); Transcript (pscomm)
queries the printer for the cumulative pagecount before and after each
job.  Hope that helps.  All I can read into it is an inconsistency in your
PRINTER, not Transcript.