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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)pac.8       6.2 (Berkeley) 10/30/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH PAC 8 "October 30, 1985"
                      8: .UC 5
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: pac \- printer/plotter accounting information
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B /etc/pac
                     13: [
                     14: .B \-Pprinter
                     15: ] [
                     16: .B \-pprice
                     17: ] [
                     18: .B \-s
                     19: ] [
                     20: .B \-r
                     21: ] [
                     22: .B \-c
                     23: ] [
                     24: .B \-m
                     25: ] [ name ... ]
                     26: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     27: .I Pac
                     28: reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the number
                     29: of pages (the usual case) or feet (for raster devices)
                     30: of paper consumed by each user, and printing out
                     31: how much each user consumed in pages or feet and dollars.
                     32: If any
                     33: .I names
                     34: are specified, then statistics are only printed for those users;
                     35: usually, statistics are printed for every user who has used any paper.
                     36: .PP
                     37: The
                     38: .B \-P
                     39: flag causes accounting to be done for the named printer.
                     40: Normally, accounting is done for the default printer (site dependent) or
                     41: the value of the environment variable
                     42: .B PRINTER
                     43: is used.
                     44: .PP
                     45: The
                     46: .B \-p
                     47: flag causes the value
                     48: .I price
                     49: to be used for the cost in dollars instead of the default value of 0.02
                     50: or the price specified in
                     51: .IR /etc/printcap.
                     52: .PP
                     53: The
                     54: .B \-c
                     55: flag causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the
                     56: output is sorted alphabetically by name.
                     57: .PP
                     58: The
                     59: .B \-r
                     60: flag reverses the sorting order.
                     61: .PP
                     62: The
                     63: .B \-s
                     64: flag causes the accounting information to be summarized on the
                     65: summary accounting file; this summarization is necessary since on a
                     66: busy system, the accounting file can grow by several lines per day.
                     67: .PP
                     68: The
                     69: .B \-m
                     70: flag causes the host name to be ignored in the accounting file.  This
                     71: allows for a user on multiple machines to have all of his printing
                     72: charges grouped together.
                     73: .SH FILES
                     74: .ta 2i
                     75: /usr/adm/?acct raw accounting files
                     76: .br
                     77: /usr/adm/?_sum summary accounting files
                     78: .br
                     79: /etc/printcap  printer capability data base
                     80: .SH SEE ALSO
                     81: printcap(5)
                     82: .SH BUGS
                     83: The relationship between the computed price and reality is
                     84: as yet unknown.

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