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- From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: SPARCprinter page counts
- Keywords: SPARCprinter page counts
- Message-ID: <416@ftms.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:46:04 GMT
- References: <27434@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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- In article <27434@dog.ee.lbl.gov> joe@msri.org writes:
- <How does one get a SPARCprinter page count? I've been told some mumbo-jumbo
- <about the invisible buttons on the LED panel, but I can only get numbers
- <which are invariant accross our three SPARCprinters, an extremely unlikely
- <coincidence for actual page counts. Is there some documented way which
- <doesn't involve such a hostile interface?
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- Step 1) Use NeWSprint 2.0
- Step 2) look at the file /usr/spool/sparc/acct
- Step 3) extract necessary information
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- The location of the acct file is site dependent. But, step 1) is necessary,
- since NeWSprint 1.0 didn't have accounting support.
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