Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

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F Using FASTP
FASTP is the print process released with the spooler. Print processes retrieve the
output stored on disk by a collector and print it on a device. Each print device in the
spooler subsystem has a print process associated with it.
Topics described in this appendix include the following:
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Configuring FASTP on page F-1
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Tracing FASTP on page F-2
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Extended Configuration With FASTCNFG on page F-5
Configuring FASTP
FASTP is configured as a print process to the spooler subsystem using the Spoolcom
PRINT command, which is summarized below.
FASTP does not run as a process pair; therefore, you should configure a backup
processor so the supervisor can run the print process in an alternate processor.
The subcommand PARM is interpreted by FASTP as described under the DEV
command in Section 4, Spoolcom.
FILE program-filename should be the FASTP object file supplied with the spooler
subsystem.
FASTP can handle up to 32 concurrent jobs on as many active devices. In this
context, an active device is one that FASTP has been instructed to open by the spooler
supervisor. FASTP opens each device with write-only, exclusive access.
If the spooler supervisor tries to instruct FASTP to open a thirty-third device, FASTP
will reject the open request with spooler error code %13004. This will cause the device
to enter the DEV ERROR 4 state. The supervisor will periodically retry the open
request.
PRINT process-name ! suggest $SPLA or SPLX
, BACKUP backup-cpu ! -1:15
, CPU cpu ! 0:15
, DEBUG [ OFF ]
, DELETE
, FILE program-filename ! Should be FASTP
, PARM parameter ! 0 (unused by FASTP)
, PRI execution-priority ! 1:199
, START
, STATUS [ / OUT filename / ] [ DETAIL ]
, XREF [ / OUT filename / ]