PAC(8) MachTen System Manager’s Manual PAC(8)

NAME
pac - printer/plotter accounting information

SYNOPSIS
pac [-Pprinter] [-c] [-m] [-pprice] [-s] [-r] [name ...]

DESCRIPTION
Pac reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the number
of pages (the usual case) or feet (for raster devices) of paper consumed
by each user, and printing out how much each user consumed in pages or
feet and dollars.

Options and operands available:

-Pprinter Accounting is done for the named printer. Normally, account-
ing is done for the default printer (site dependent) or the
value of the environment variable PRINTER is used.

-c flag causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the out-
put is sorted alphabetically by name.

-m flag causes the host name to be ignored in the accounting
file. This allows for a user on multiple machines to have all
of his printing charges grouped together.

-pprice The value price is used for the cost in dollars instead of the
default value of 0.02 or the price specified in /etc/printcap.

-r Reverse the sorting order.

-s Accounting information is summarized on the summary accounting
file; this summarization is necessary since on a busy system,
the accounting file can grow by several lines per day.

names Statistics are only printed for user(s) name; usually, statis-
tics are printed for every user who has used any paper.

FILES
/var/account/?acct raw accounting files
/var/account/?_sum summary accounting files
/etc/printcap printer capability data base