Apologies if you received my original message twice, the first time I
received a "message not sent" mail back.
The original question was:-
>
> > The printer accounting information deposited to the file
> > specified by the af parameter in /etc/printcap seems a
> > bit sparse, it being of the form
> >
> > <accounting figure> <nodename>:<username>
> >
> > eg
> >
> > 2.00 node.wmin.ac.uk:jones
> >
> > Is it possible to obtain more information on what has been printed
> > out eg job name, date/time, process id?
My thanks to Dr. Thomas H. Blinn of Digital's Unix Software Group
who replied:-
>
> The answer to your question is "no". What you see in the file is what the
> standard line printer daemon (lpd) generates. If there were any way to get
> more details, it would be by specifying additional options to lpd and they
> would be documented in the lpd and printer configuration reference pages.
>
> There is work underway to deliver an enhanced printing subsystem in a future
> release of Digital UNIX. To what extent that will provide more accounting
> data (and tools to analyze the data), I don't personally know.
>
> If you need more information, you might be able to get it through putting a
> filter into the print stream, but that's a nightmare all its own.
>
> Tom
>
> Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
> 110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
> Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 881-0646
> Internet: tpb_at_zk3.dec.com Digital's Easynet: alpha::tpb
> ACM Member: tpblinn_at_acm.org PC_at_Home: tom_at_felines.mv.net
>
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