Changeset 1483 for pykota/trunk/docs

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05/18/04 16:49:34 (20 years ago)
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jalet
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Big code changes to completely remove the need for "requester" directives,
jsut use "hardware(... your previous requester directive's content ...)"

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    2121     
    2222    <para> 
    23       When defining an external <literal>requester</literal> for a printer, it is important to wait for the printer being 
     23      When defining an hardware <literal>accounter</literal> for a printer, it is important to wait for the printer being 
    2424      <literal>idle</literal> before asking it for its internal page counter, otherwise results could 
    2525      be inaccurate. If the printer is asked while the job is still being printed, then the page counter's 
     
    4949     
    5050    <para> 
    51       When defining an external <literal>requester</literal> for a printer, it is important to wait for the printer being 
     51      When defining an hardware <literal>accounter</literal> for a printer, it is important to wait for the printer being 
    5252      <literal>idle</literal> before asking it for its internal page counter, otherwise results could 
    5353      be inaccurate. If the printer is asked while the job is still being printed, then the page counter's 
     
    9292    <title>pagecount.pl</title> 
    9393    <para> 
    94       This <application>Perl</application> script can be used in the <literal>requester</literal> directive of <filename>pykota.conf</filename>, 
     94      This <application>Perl</application> script can be used in the <literal>accounter</literal> directive of <filename>pykota.conf</filename>, 
    9595      to ask a printer for its internal page counter by sending a specially crafted <acronym>PJL</acronym> job 
    9696      to it over the AppSocket protocol, usually on <acronym>TCP</acronym> port 9100. 
     
    103103      to be in <literal>idle</literal> state, in something like : 
    104104<screen>       
    105 requester: external(somewaitscript.sh && pagecount.pl %(printer)s) 
     105accounter: hardware(somewaitscript.sh && pagecount.pl %(printer)s) 
    106106</screen> 
    107107    </para> 
     
    119119 
    120120$Log$ 
     121Revision 1.2  2004/05/18 14:48:48  jalet 
     122Big code changes to completely remove the need for "requester" directives, 
     123jsut use "hardware(... your previous requester directive's content ...)" 
     124 
    121125Revision 1.1  2004/03/16 14:42:31  jalet 
    122126Improved documentation