[mod.computers.vax] printer accounting

art%mwvms@MITRE.ARPA (06/06/86)

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>   I'm starting to look at accounting more seriously.  Looking at the
>records produced by the system with ACCOUNTING, I'm surprised there does
>not seem to be any indication of the printer forms used.  Is this right?
>Or is this because no one has used forms here?
correct.
     
>   More about printing.  Exactly what are "Gets from source" and "QIOs
>to printer"?  "Pages printed" seems to include headers and trailers, so
>this seems to be a good measure of paper usage.  Are the "GETS" and QIOs
>a good measure of I/O activity to the disk and printer for the job?  Is
>it reasonable to expect these numbers to be reproducible?
Pages printed is not what it seems.  It is dependant upon what the lines per
page is presently set to.  If set to 0 as would be done in graphics output
the number of pages becomes 1.
     
>   Thanks in advance.  But a warning that if you reply to me you may
>get even more questions.  Brent.
if I know the answer will respond as time permits.
     
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