Patrick,
Have you fixed the bug relating to commas in the jobname? I'd really like
to be using a standard version of the software as opposed to a patched
one. I believe the patch I'm using is Fernando Blanco's... maybe. :)
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Patrick Powell wrote:
> Could I get you folks to try the current version of IFHP and see if
> it gets pagecounts correctly? If not, could you put your patches in
> and see if it works? I will then add the patch.
>
> Patrick Powell
>
>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 21 16:36:22 2002
> > From: Duncan McEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: LPRng: pagecounting on the hp4100
> > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:46:12 +1200
> >
> > --Multipart_Thu_Aug_22_10:46:12_2002-1
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> > > Has anybody found a reasonable way to get pagecount data out of
> > > the HP Laserjet 4100?
> >
> > Coincidently I've been looking at this as well, since I found the same
> > problem with zero page counts for 1 page print jobs.
> >
> > I searched back through some previous mailing list messages I'd saved and found
> > one from Fernando Blanco Marcilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent on Jan 22nd
> > 2002 with a subject "HP-4100 Pagecount problem. A possible solution." I don't
> > think Fernando has said anything in to this thread so far so I hope he doesn't
> > mind if I do it for him!
> >
> > I've attached his message below so you can see what he said back then.
> >
> > I've also tried his patch with ifhp 3.5.10 (the code is essentially the same in
> > the affected areas but the line numbers are off so I've also attached an
> > "updated" version of the patch.
> >
> > It actually does seem to work for me, in that if I run ifhp in debugging mode,
> > it exits with the correct page count almost exactly as soon as the last page of
> > a job finishes printing.
> >
> > I've also tried this patch on an hp4000, a 4050 and an 8000 and it seems to
> > work on all of those. However, it doesn't work on an older hp5m we still have.
> > So right now I'm attempting to understand more of what is going on here to see
> > if I can figure out *why* his patch works for the newer printers but not for
> > the 5m. And I'd rather not put it into production use until I do understand
> > it, so if anyone can explain it I'd like to hear...
> >
> > Duncan
> >
> >
> > --Multipart_Thu_Aug_22_10:46:12_2002-1
> > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; type=patch
> > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ifhp.patch"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > *** ifhp.c.ORIG Tue Jul 23 04:19:05 2002
> > --- ifhp.c Mon Aug 19 15:38:42 2002
> > ***************
> > *** 3232,3238 ****
> > void Do_waitend( int waitend_timeout, int waitend_interval,
> > int waitend_ctrl_t_interval, int banner )
> > {
> > ! char *sync_str, *s, *t, *u, buffer[SMALLBUFFER], endname[SMALLBUFFER];
> > int len, elapsed, timeout, waitend,
> > use, use_pjl, use_ps, use_job, c,
> > echo_received = 0;
> > --- 3232,3238 ----
> > void Do_waitend( int waitend_timeout, int waitend_interval,
> > int waitend_ctrl_t_interval, int banner )
> > {
> > ! char *sync_str, *s, *t, *u, buffer[SMALLBUFFER], endname[SMALLBUFFER],
> > statusname[SMALLBUFFER];
> > int len, elapsed, timeout, waitend,
> > use, use_pjl, use_ps, use_job, c,
> > echo_received = 0;
> > ***************
> > *** 3415,3421 ****
> > t = GET_HASH_STR_OBJ( Devstatus, "name", MEMINFO);
> > u = GET_HASH_STR_OBJ( Devstatus, "result", MEMINFO);
> > DEBUG2("Do_waitend: job '%s', name '%s', result '%s', endname
> > '%s'", s, t, u, endname );
> > ! if( s && safestrstr(s,"END") && t && safestrstr(t,endname) ){
> > waitend = 1;
> > }
> > /* we have the job cancelled, so we retry */
> > --- 3415,3427 ----
> > t = GET_HASH_STR_OBJ( Devstatus, "name", MEMINFO);
> > u = GET_HASH_STR_OBJ( Devstatus, "result", MEMINFO);
> > DEBUG2("Do_waitend: job '%s', name '%s', result '%s', endname
> > '%s'", s, t, u, endname );
> > ! /* if( s && safestrstr(s,"END") && t && safestrstr(t,endname)
> > ){
> > ! waitend = 1;
> > ! } */
> > ! if (t) { strcpy(statusname,t+1);
> > ! statusname[strlen(statusname)-1]='\0';
> > ! }
> > ! if( s && strstr(s,"END") && t && strstr(Jobname,statusname) ){
> > waitend = 1;
> > }
> > /* we have the job cancelled, so we retry */
> >
> > --Multipart_Thu_Aug_22_10:46:12_2002-1
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> >
> >
> > --Multipart_Thu_Aug_22_10:46:12_2002-1
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> >
> > Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Delivery-Date: Tue Jan 22 14:16:01 2002
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:40:23 +0100
> > From: Fernando Blanco Marcilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: LPRng: HP-4100 Pagecount problem. A possible solution.
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > MIME-version: 1.0
> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [es] (Win98; I)
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> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have done some tests with the version of ifhp 3.5.2 and the pagecount
> > of HP-4100 printers, observing the messages of status that it returns
> > as the job is being processed.
> >
> > Unfortunately, unlike other HP printers, this model gives back 'END'
> > status a long before the job is completed; nevertheless, when it really
> > finishes a job, the following values in Devstatus are given:
> >
> > job="END"
> > name=Jobname (or a substring of this.)
> >
> > Having this behavior into account, I modified a few lines in the routine
> > Do_waitend and finally I managed to count the pages correctly (at least
> > in the tests I did, using it for some days with five HP-4100 and several
> > other models, sending PCL files and Postscript).
> >
> > The modification I have done in ifhp 3.5.2 has been:
> > line 2912: I added the statusname variable
> > lines 3085,3088: I modified the end of job detection criterion
> >
> > See:
> > diff ifhp.c.orig ifhp.c
> > 2911c2911
> > < char *sync_str, *s, *t, *u, buffer[SMALLBUFFER],
> > endname[SMALLBUFFER];
> > ---
> > > /* */ char *sync_str, *s, *t, *u, buffer[SMALLBUFFER], endname[SMALLBUFFER];
> > > statusname[SMALLBUFFER];
> > 3084c3084,3087
> > < if( s && strstr(s,"END") && t &&
> > strstr(t,endname) ){
> > ---
> > > /* hp4100 17.12.01 */ if (t) { strcpy(statusname,t+1);
> > > statusname[strlen(statusname)-1]='\0';
> > > }
> > > /* hp4100 17.12.01 */ if( s && strstr(s,"END") && t &&
> > > strstr(Jobname,statusname) ){
> >
> >
> > This was sufficient. The statusname variable I used to remove the quotes
> > that are in the first and last character of t, due to problems when the
> > Jobname is too long or contains the character ','.
> > It was not necessary to put pagecount_poll and pagecount_interval in the
> > printcap file.
> >
> > As I do not know the code in depth, I do not know if this modification
> > might introduce any problem that I have not taken into account.
> >
> > I also tried the same modification with 3.5.0 version, and it counts
> > correctly too.
> >
> > Regards:
> > Fernando Blanco.
> > CIEMAT.
> >
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