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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: printer accounting
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.013413.4077@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 3 Feb 90 01:34:13 GMT
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sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (skot) writes:

>We need a way to set up accounting for the NeXT Laser Printer.

Try 'man -k account' and 'man printcap'. That is why all the
documentation is on line. You need to nidump printcap, edit the
printer info from the information you find in the printcap man page
and then use '/usr/etc/pac' to see the accounting records. You don't
need to go through any of that credit-card garbage. Just have them pay
$10.00 up front and disable their account if they go over it and don't
pay (you'll probably need a cron entry and maybe an awk script to
find the overcharged accounts on a daily basis).


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Chris Whatley
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