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Beside providing a printer, printer pool, or directory output,
HostServe in the same pass can simultaneously provide the following outputs.
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Indexes
HostServe has an advanced Indexing capability. We are using the view port technology for the indexing. The indexing can be based on fixed form data location or keyed location, which means a location, specified by the user and the sub pieces of an area. The view port in each instance will go to the desired location and pick up the data. The data could be comma delimited or tab delimited or anything. For example, in the case of a telephone bill, the software will pick up the numbers from the bill and the total and make a new page out of that information or if you only want to pick up the total, you can specify that location and only the total amount would be picked up by the software.
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Spooling
When jobs arrive at the server they are placed in the “Pending Jobs” window. These jobs can arrive as either automatically processed jobs, or as Manual Jobs. Automatic jobs are processed when print time is available. Held jobs can be released, or moved to another queue for processing. Held jobs can be viewed using the input file viewer. This viewer has Text, ASCII, EDBDIC, PCL, TIFF, PostScript, and PDF viewing capability.
When the jobs arrive, they are analyzed for PDL, Language, Job Name, and Type. At this time these jobs can automatically be placed in the correct queue for processing. These jobs can also be parsed into various sections, so that separate start commands, processing options, and printers, can be utilized for each section. This can be either a Manual or Automatic operation. The jobs can be combined so that larger jobs are submitted to the printers. This increases printer efficiency.
The operation of the spooler:
The operation of the spooler can occur in two modes, Automatic and Manual. In the Automatic mode all of the jobs arriving in the input queue are routed to the first available printer. The first printer is chosen from the idle printers based on one of the following methods:
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