Re: printing quota management

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Thu, 2005-31-03 at 20:47 +0300, Hayat wrote:
> Hi. I am a senior student at AAU, Ethiopia. I am trying to do my
> project on printing quota management. I found your address at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1998February/msg00758.html .
> Can you please help me. What I'm trying to do is write a program that
> gives a quota to every user on the network. 100 pages per month or

There are a number of programs that already do that, that you could
reference.

> something. I want to know what happens when you click print. It goes
> to the print server and is the print spooler always on? How does it
> know when a print job is sent? Can I stop all print requests to go to
> the spooler before enering my program. How can I know how many pages
> have been printed? Any help on how I can inegrate my program with the

Doesn't that depend on the print spooler you're using?

> windows print spooler will be appreciated. Please I need some help. I
> will be looking forward to hear from you soon. Thanks.
> 

I don't think anyone here knows much about the windows print spooler.
Perhaps you should email one of the spooler mailing lists. GNOME is a
graphical user environment and really doesn't have much to do with print
spoolers.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Ryan