Printer accounting and cutoff from UNIX: is it possible?

larry hughes hughes at silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Fri Mar 2 07:37:07 AEST 1990


In article <1156 at dutrun.UUCP> ed at duticai.UUCP (Ed de Wild) writes:
>BTW: Why does UNIX have a cutoff for disk usage (quota) but not for 
>printer usage?

Because the system won't crash if the printer runs out of paper,
but it will if it runs out of swap space!

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