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A-Shell Development History

(UNIX spooling): Setting SBR=SUBMIT2 in the miame.ini now affects the spool operation in the same way as XCALL SUBMIT. The net effect is that A-Shell will not wait for the spool command to complete before continuing. Generally, this doesn't matter since the spool submission command (e.g. lpr) returns very quickly. But the effect can be substantial when using the COMMAND= option in the printer init file to execute a length script or other executable in place of the standard spooler submission command. For example, if you have a script to archive the report, which involves a lot of database activities, web connections, etc., it might take several seconds to complete. Previously, XCALL SPOOL would not return until that operation was complete. With SBR=SUBMIT2, it would return immediately.