Printer accounting and cutoff for UNIX. Is it possible?

[Robert Elz]

In article <5369 at brazos.Rice.edu>, duticai!ed at relay.eu.net (Ed de Wild) writes:
> BTW: Why does UNIX have a cutoff for disk usage (quota) but not for
> printer usage?

When we did the quota stuff, it included everything (you name it, we
controlled it...)  But the disc quota part was the only bit that was
implemented well enough to get distributed - paper quotas were in a local
version of lpr that had (essentially) no network capabilities, etc, when
the 4.2 lpr appeared we trashed ours.

Note: all this stuff was first done in about 3bsd & then again in 4.0 and
4.1 bsd, well before 4.2 was released.