At 16:31 -0500 on 02/17/2010, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: PDS vs. PDSE:
I don't see that. The printer support in windoze and *ix is quite ad hoc.
In the case of *ix it's hard to say what the SPOOL support is? I'm tempted
to say cups, but that's questionable.
There is print server support where individual machines on the
network send their program's output to a Print Server which stores
the printout and then sends it to printers. That seems to me to be
the same thing as SPOOL support (multiple programs offloading their
printout for a centralized program to actually sent to the printer).
CUPS DOES qualify (check out the Wikipedia entry) and in addition has
to do with decoupling the print format from the output format needed
for the printer (also covered in the article).
In Mailframe terms, the latter function has to do with the difference
between printing to a Line Printer and a Laser Printer (same input
file with content, different format of data sent to the respective
printers).
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