NetBase for MPE Reference Guide

CHAPTER 7
NetBase Spooling
NetBase Spooling makes sending your programs’ output to any spooled printer anywhere in your
HP 3000 network both simple and practical. It provides you with several transparent methods of
defining the printing environment and performs the task with a minimal amount of overhead.
Rather than create the spool file locally and move it across the network to the destination printer
after the spool file is created, NetBase spooling allows you to create the spool file on the destination
system. NetBase spooling also transports multiple lines of output per network transaction so it is
actually faster than MPE creating the spool file locally one line at a time. Creating a local spool file
and then copying it across the network to a remote spooler doubles the amount of spooling overhead
and holds up sending the report until it is complete.
In This Chapter
• Spooling Overview
• Remote Spooling
• Using Pseudo Devices with Remote Spooling
• NBSpool Program