reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the num-
ber of pages (the usual case) or feet  (for  raster  devices)  of
paper  consumed by each user, and printing out how much each user
consumed in pages or feet  and	dollars.   Options  and  operands
available:  Accounting	is done for the named printer.	Normally,
accounting is done for the default printer  (site  dependent)  or
the  value  of the environment variable is used.  flag causes the
output to be sorted by cost; usually the output is sorted  alpha-
betically  by  name.   flag causes the host name to be ignored in
the accounting file.  This allows for a user on multiple machines
to  have all of his printing charges grouped together.	The value
is used for the cost in dollars instead of the default	value  of
0.02  or  the  price  specified  in  Reverse  the  sorting order.
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.   Statistics
are  only printed for user(s) usually, statistics are printed for
every user who has used any paper.  raw accounting files  summary
accounting  files  printer  capability data base The relationship
between the computed price and reality is as  yet  unknown.   The
command appeared in



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