Printer accounting and cutoff from UNIX: is it possible?

[Richard Tobin]

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

True, but I have seen a unix system (Vax 750, 4.2BSD) hang because the
console had run out of paper!  Putting in a new box of paper fixed the
problem.

-- Richard

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