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PAC(8)			 BSD System Manager's Manual			PAC(8)

NAME
     pac - printer/plotter accounting information

SYNOPSIS
     pac [-cmrs] [-Pprinter] [-pprice] [user ...]

DESCRIPTION
     pac reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the number
     of pages (the usual case) or feet (for raster devices) of paper consumed
     by each named user, and prints out how much each user consumed in pages
     or feet and dollars.

     When no user arguments are given, statistics are printed for every user
     who has used any paper.

     The options are as follows:

     -Pprinter
	     Accounting is done for the named printer. Normally, accounting is
	     done for the default printer (site dependent) or the value of the
	     environment variable PRINTER is used.

     -c	     Causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the output is
	     sorted alphabetically by name.

     -m	     Causes the host name to be ignored in the accounting file. This
	     allows for a user on multiple machines to have all of his print-
	     ing charges grouped together.

     -pprice
	     The value price is used for the cost in dollars instead of the
	     default value of 0.02 or the price specified in /etc/printcap.

     -r	     Reverse the sorting order.

     -s	     Accounting information is summarized on the summary accounting
	     file; this summarization is necessary since on a busy system, the
	     accounting file can grow by several lines per day.

OUTPUT FORMAT
     pac formats the output into a simple table, using four columns:

     1.	  The host name followed by the user's login name (column "Login"). If
	  the -m option was specified, the host name will be omitted.

     2.	  The number of pages or feet printed (column "pages/feet").

     3.	  The number of copies made (column "runs").

     4.	  The total price for the user (column "price").

     If no user argument was specified, pac will print a summary line with
     print totals.

FILES
     /var/account/?acct	 raw accounting files
     /var/account/?_sum	 summary accounting files
     /etc/printcap	 printer capability database

SEE ALSO
     printcap(5)

HISTORY
     The pac command appeared in 4.0BSD.
BUGS
     The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unk-
     nown.

MirOS BSD #10-current		 June 6, 1993				     1

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