Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide

Part One

I

NTRODUCTION TO THE 

PARIS S

POOLER

The PARIS Spooler is at the heart of the PARIS document management
system. It has the dual responsibilities of directing the flow of data through the
system and ensuring that the correct set of formatting rules are used for each
job by passing  instructions to the PARIS formatting engines.

The role of a PARIS Engine is to accept instruction from the Spooler as to
where to find its input, what rules to use for processing, what printer to format
for and ultimately, where to send the output.

The Spooler is fundamentally a messaging system. It does not actually perform
print formatting tasks, the engine has this responsibility. The Spooler passes
processing instructions to the engines and responds to messages sent back from
the engines.

PARIS Spooler Systems

The PARIS Spooler is available as a 16 bit and 32 bit system. Differences in
the 32 bit system include the availability of multiple local engines and
additional input sources (LPD and Port Monitor).

This manual applies to the 32 bit system.