Re: Printing

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Followup to my note about printing...
> When I take out the :sh:\ that means NO Burst Page. I DO get a burst 
page
> (after restarting lpd). It just ain't much of one.... a few characters
> scattered about, nothing meaningful (to me, anyway)....

The banner is probably not bieng proccessed by whatever filter, and 
thus gettig chewed up by the printer.  The banner function was 
designed form line printers running in ACSII.  You may need to include 
generation of a banner form real printers in your filter program.  

> That's progress, at least. I don't doubt that it's supported, but I 
don't
> see enough of a write-up on the more advanced stuff, that's all...

About Printer accounting:  see the man pages for "pac" and "acct",  
they describe both the commands and the API (or at least one 
function).  Not intimately familiar with it, but I know it works,  
most documentation for accouting is found in "other" sources, like 
books on general UNIX admin.