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36 .Nd printer/plotter accounting information
39 .Op Fl P Ns Ar printer
49 utility reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the number
50 of pages (the usual case) or feet (for raster devices)
51 of paper consumed by each user, and printing out
52 how much each user consumed in pages or feet and dollars.
54 Options and operands available:
55 .Bl -tag -width PPprinter
56 .It Fl P Ns Ar printer
57 Accounting is done for the named printer.
58 Normally, accounting is done for the default printer (site dependent) or
59 the value of the environment variable
63 Cause the output to be sorted by cost; usually the
64 output is sorted alphabetically by name.
66 Cause the host name to be ignored in the accounting file.
68 allows for a user on multiple machines to have all of his printing
69 charges grouped together.
73 is used for the cost in dollars instead of the default value of 0.02
74 or the price specified in
77 Reverse the sorting order.
79 Accounting information is summarized on the
80 summary accounting file; this summarization is necessary since on a
81 busy system, the accounting file can grow by several lines per day.
83 Statistics are only printed for user(s)
85 usually, statistics are printed for every user who has used any paper.
88 .Bl -tag -width /var/account/?_sum -compact
89 .It Pa /var/account/?acct
91 .It Pa /var/account/?_sum
92 summary accounting files
94 printer capability data base
104 The relationship between the computed price and reality is