Cups job number approaching 1 million

[ed smith]

Michael,

Thanks for your time. Is the job number user- (administrator) -configurable? Some staff here wants me to test it ahead of time in our model office environment, which is only in the 4,000's. BTW, I bought your book.

Thanks again.
Ed Smith

> ed smith wrote:
> > In a few weeks, we will print our 999,999 cups job.
>
> Congratulations!
>
>  > Does anyone know
> > what number cups will use after that, ie, will it rollover to
> > 1,000,000 or start at 0 again?  We have some scripts that may need
> > adjustments. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
>
> It will keep on counting until it hits 2^31-1 (2.1 billion or so),
> at which point the job IDs will go negative.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com