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Sep 2004 (For LPRng-3.8.28)</th>
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<h1><a name="ACCOUNTINGREF" id="ACCOUNTINGREF"></a>Chapter 18.
Accounting</h1>
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<dt>18.1. <a href=
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Options</a></dt>
<dt>18.2. <a href="x9773.htm">Accounting
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<dt>18.3. <a href="x9787.htm">Accounting File</a></dt>
<dt>18.4. <a href="x9833.htm">Authorization and
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<dt>18.5. <a href="x9858.htm">Accessing Printer Hardware
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<dt>18.6. <a href="x9869.htm">Reliable Accounting</a></dt>
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<p>In Academic institutions, avoiding printing accounting has
been regarded as a challenge, an ongoing game of fat cat and
poor starving mouse, between the brutal and corrupt
Administration and the poor, downtrodden, over-charged student.
We will disregard the fact that if most students put as much
effort into their studies as in finding ways to avoid
accounting procedures then they would be Rhodes Scholar
material, but I digress...</p>
<p>There are two approaches to printing accounting: use
software determine the number of pages that should be printed
or use a hardware pagecounter facility on the printer to
accurately determine the number of pages used. While the
software method works well in a relatively error and security
compromise free environment and where print jobs do not jam,
for accurate account a hardware level pagecounter or some other
method must be used. LPRng provides facilities to use either
method to determine page counts.</p>
<p>There are also two methods available to store the actual
accounting information: the simple <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">save to file</i></span> method
and the more complex <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">save to program</i></span> method. LPRng provides
support for both methods.</p>
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="ACCOUNTINGSERVER" id=
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<p>The accounting facilities are controlled and enabled by
the following entries in the printcap file.</p>
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<td>af</td>
<td>NULL</td>
<td>accounting file name</td>
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<td>max_accounting_file_size</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>max accounting file size (in Kbytes)</td>
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<td>min_accounting_file_size</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>min accounting file size (in Kbytes)</td>
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<td>as</td>
<td>"jobstart $H $n $P $k $b $t"</td>
<td>accounting info for job start</td>
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<td>ae</td>
<td>"jobend $H $n $P $k $b $t"</td>
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<td>achk</td>
<td>FALSE</td>
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<td>la</td>
<td>TRUE</td>
<td>do accounting for 'local' printer</td>
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<td>ar</td>
<td>FALSE</td>
<td>do accounting for 'remote' transfers</td>
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