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Figure 1–1 DECprint Supervisor Software Components
The software components of a DECprint Supervisor printing system are
described in the following sections.
1.2.1 The Print Symbiont
Users send jobs to the printer using the DCL PRINT command or using
an application program that generates the OpenVMS system service call
SYS$SNDJBC. The print symbiont manages the print jobs. The DECprint
Supervisor software performs the following operations:
• Maintains resources
• Sends control data to the printer
• Sends the data file to the printer
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