Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

Using FASTP
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Tracing FASTP
The FASTP print process supports CONTROLBUF 101, 103, and 113 calls in font jobs
as described with the CONTROLBUF directive described in Section 4, Font Utility.
Tracing FASTP
Tracing is performed by a FASTP print process for a device. The FASTP print process
writes trace data to a trace file. Trace data includes information sent between the
FASTP print process and the device along with information about other processing
events that affect the device.
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Tracing for a device can be enabled or disabled at any time.
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A different trace file or set of trace files can be specified for each device.
To obtain trace information for a device:
1. Create the trace file (or files). Trace files must be created before tracing is
enabled.
2. Specify the trace filename (or filenames) in the device entry in the FASTCNFG file.
Trace filenames must be valid Guardian filenames.
3. Enable tracing for the device and force the FASTP print process to read the
FASTCNFG file to determine the trace filename.
Creating Trace Files
Trace files have the following characteristics:
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A maximum of eight trace files can be specified for each device.
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If only one trace file is specified, tracing is stopped when the file is full.
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If more than one file is specified, tracing wraps around the sequence of files.
When a file becomes full, the print process purges the data from the next file and
begins writing to it; when the last file in the sequence is full, the print process goes
to the first file in the sequence, and so on.
Use the File Utility Program (FUP) to create each trace file as follows:
$volume.subvolume.file-ID
is the name of the trace file.
TYPE E
specifies an entry-sequenced Enscribe file.
Note. A CONTROLBUF 113 must be part of a font job to be processed by the FASTP print
process.
FUP CREATE $volume.subvolume.file-ID,TYPE E,REC 4000,EXT
(n,n)