At 11:10 AM 3/27/97 -0800, Mark Bixby wrote:
>For an output spooler process driving a printer, the output spoolfile (i.e.
>O12345.OUT.HPSPOOL) is opened for *input*.  Thus rec-ptr divided into eof
>gives percent done (well, ignoring printer buffering issues....).

Ah, so your program monitors spoolfile *printing* activity.  That makes
sense.  I'm interested in monitoring an arbitrary process (for instance, a
report program that serially reads a large dataset) and estimating its
completion time.  Same principles would apply, just in a slightly different way.
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