Changeset 908 for pykota/trunk/NEWS

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Timestamp:
04/12/03 18:58:28 (21 years ago)
Author:
jalet
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The workaround for HP printers was not correct, and there's probably no
correct way to workaround the problem because we can't save the internal
page counter in real time. The last job's size is unconditionnally set to
5 pages in this case.

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    r907 r908  
    4848          may be lower than the real number of pages printed. 
    4949          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html 
     50          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to five in this 
     51          case.  
     52          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers 
     53          off. 
    5054           
    5155        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile   
    5256          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on) 
    53           This should allow PyKota to work fine with HP Laserjet 
    54           4L/5L/6L. 
     57          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet 
     58          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing. 
    5559          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html 
     60          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers 
     61          off. 
    5662           
    5763        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already