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In article <1111@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) writes:
>Well here you've got a little problem. I'm planing to hook a HP-LJ II with
>PS-cartridge to an Apollo-workstation. And this through the parallel port.
>This'll get me some performance for those wanting to use PCL and bitmaps.

>This make it imposible to get info from the printer. I know that this is
>stupid, since the printer could return info on print jobs. But then this
>is the way it's going to be.

If the things you're printing use the Document Structuring Convention,
you could simply do a
	grep "%%Page:" <file> | wc
to find out the page count.  Of course, this isn't generally applicable - if
the file isn't DSC-compliant.  But will work with a lot of things (like psroff,
groff and probably Transcript)

(psroff has an option to feed the page count back up the serial line too)
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