Spooler Plus Programmer's Guide

Introduction to the Spooler Plus Subsystem

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Spoolcom

The Spoolcom utility allows you to declare and initialize collectors and print processes,

define and modify the routing structure, control the printing of jobs, and obtain the

status of any component of the spooler. Spoolcom also incorporates the perusal

functions of Peruse. You can run Spoolcom from a terminal to translate your

commands into messages to the spooler supervisor, which carries out your

instructions. You can enter Spoolcom commands either interactively from a terminal or

from a command file, which you specify by using the IN option of the Spoolcom

command. Spoolcom performs its work by calling the spooler utility procedures, which

can also be used by programmers who want to control the spooler from their programs.

The complete syntax and considerations of Spoolcom appear in the Spooler Plus

Utilities Reference Manual.

An overview of the spooler subsystem is shown in Figure 1-1, which includes the

spooler utilities: Peruse, Spoolcom, Font, and RPSetup. By using print and spooler

procedures described in this manual, you can write an application that performs some

or all the functions of these utilities.