Spooler Programmer's Guide

Spooler Procedure Calls

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SPOOLSTART Procedure

The SPOOLSTART procedure formats a spooler buffer suitable for passing to other

spooler interface procedures. It is used to specify job attributes, establish a level-2 or

level-3 spooling session with a spooler collector, or establish a level-3 spooling

session to a spooler job file.

error-code returned value

INT

returns one of the following spooler error codes:

filenum-of-collector input

INT:value

is the file number of the collector or spooler job file obtained through a call to the

system OPEN or FILE_OPEN_ procedure. The collector must be opened for

waited I/O.

error-code := SPOOLSTART ( [filenum-of-collector ] ! i

,[ level-3-buff ] ! o

,[ location ] ! i

,[ form-name ] ! i

,[ report-name ] ! i

,[ num-of-copies ] ! i

,[ page-size ] ! i

,[ flags ] ! i

,[ owner ] ! i

,[ max-lines ] ! i

,[ max-pages ] ! i

,[ file-name ] ! i,o

,[ filenum ] ) ! i,o

,[ extended-level-3-buff ] ); ! i

0 Successful operation

%1000-%1377 Error on file to collector (bits <8:15> contain a file-system error

number; see Considerations on page 4-67)

%10000 Missing parameter

%10001 Parameter is present, but its content is wrong

%11000 Checkpoint exit

%11001 Attempted to write to the collector without first opening the file