In order to make the folks who need to do 'banner page accounting'
happy,  I have added a new (yet another) totally whacko option to
the enormous range the ifhp has.

wait_for_banner  -  FLAG, default OFF (false)
   when operating in the OF filter mode and sending a banner
   to the printer,  if this option is set then the ifhp
   filter will wait until the banner has been printed as determined
   by the normal 'end of print job' detection methods.

Why do you need this option?

If you have bean counters^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H who want to do accounting
for every page,  AND you need to separately report banner pages AND
users can turn banner pages on and off:

  (pant pant pant pant)

THEN if you set this option the accouting information will now
 look like:

 start -q pagecounter
 filestart -q pagecounter+bannerpages
 fileend -q pagecounter+bannerpages+jobpages
 end -q pagecounter+bannerpages+jobpages

As you see, the first 'filestart' entry can be used to determine
the number of banner pages.  If you did NOT set this option, you
would see:
 start -q pagecounter
 filestart -q pagecounter
 fileend -q pagecounter+bannerpages+jobpages
 end -q pagecounter+bannerpages+jobpages

So you would not be able to determine how many banner pages were
used.

Sigh...


Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]            9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System             San Diego, CA 92123
  Consulting                   858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)

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