[mod.computers.vax] Fun with symbionts and laser printers

sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki) (03/11/86)

We have an LN03 connected to a VMS 4.2 system that is used for XROFF
(Image Network's DITROFF) output. The problem that we are facing is
that no matter how large the print job really is, an accounting record
is created which has a single page on it. The print jobs are submitted
using the command "print/passall/dev=ln03 filename". We would like to
charge a different rate for the LN03 than our other printers.

I have looked at the output from XROFF and the pages are correctly
delimited by form feeds. If we could count the form feeds, then we
could write our own accounting records.

Print jobs that are not /passall count the pages correctly.

Does anyone have a solution other than writing our own print symbiont?
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