> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 17 03:06:00 2001
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:06:07 +0100
> From: Ian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Accounting..fill in the WHATS THIS...
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> I'm writing a parser to print a summary of the accounting file in the
> form:-
> userName -> totalPagecount
> as this is for page use monitering rather than full blown accounting
> (next year I think!).
> I'd like to be sure that I'm getting the right pagecount for the right
> user (even after uncompleted jobs) & the example in the howto is
> different from this.
>
> Here's a section of my file numbered for convenience.
> I noticed in this small example that
>
> (line 1) START -> 'D=997869440' (odd looking date)
>
> is the same as
>
> (line 9) END -> 'S=997869440' (System 'name' stuff...)
>
> and the same for matching fields in lines 4 & 10.
>
> Do these fields START D= and END S= *always* match for a job? They
> *appear* to in my file but that's only 53 lines long so far so I can't
> be sure. The END -> p= 'pages (sides) used' count is correct for the
> jobs in this example (I sent/cancelled them!).
> Also, does anyone have a longer (1000+ lines) accounting file in the
> same format that I can use for a more realistic test?
> Regards
> Ian
The D value is the output (value?) of the unix 'time()' system call.
i.e. long date = time((void *)0);
printf( "D=%ld\n", date );
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