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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:22:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Karsten Fleischer <fleischi@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I have a problem with the lpd - deamon
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971017122143.3596U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971015105916.1381A-100000@cip5203.physik.TU-Berlin.DE>

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On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Karsten Fleischer wrote:

> > Use separate queues for the different printer types.  When one is
> > printing, the others will get `device busy' and just wait for the device
> > to become available.  
> Good idea, but there occurs the 2. problem the printer is not
> connected to a device it is a networked printer. the inputfilter
> sends the data via telnet directly to the printer, which has so much
> memory, that he accept print-job at once. Our main problem isnīt that the
> printer do not print it works the problem is our way to count the pages.
> This is don with the same script and so tit is required that only one
> printerqueue send data. 

OK, this is accounting related :-)  I don't really have any solutions for
you then.  Page counting is really difficult to do accurately.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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