>I do not think it is likely that any system will ever fill in the values for a
>particular resource that are required to process the job before the job starts
>processing. It would make this whole thing simpler if we changed the first
>sentence and said "The type of resource, e.g. medium, ink, staples,
>processing-time, color-impressions, etc. that are consumed while
>processing the job. This value is updated while the job processes.
>With this wording change, the resources now are stricly what is
>consumed in processing the job.
Lloyd, I'd like to agree, but this gets to my original point...
If you are using SNMP to poll the job table and want to display
(based on your findings) "Page 1 of 3 is printing" then the
number of pages requested (3) *has* to be filled out by the agent
and *cannot* be overwritten as the pages begin to be consumed.
Harry Lewis