Here are some examples of applications for which you might want to
use sessions:
To print “wild card” file selections on UNIX or VMS computer
systems.
To print the chapters of a technical manual, such as this one,
as a single document.
To print a series of different monthly, weekly, or yearly reports
as a batch process.
A session is invoked by the DOC %%Session command.
Language-independent delimiters included in the command allow any
data acceptable to an emulation, including 8-bit data, to be trans-
ferred to the printer without terminating documents or subjobs early
and out of context.
The session command must
Be placed at the beginning of the data stream of a document
to delimit the session boundaries.
Precede all of the data that belongs to an individual subjob.
This will ensure that the command is not saved in the actual
data stream that is passed to a language or emulation.
Some host applications add DOCs at the beginning of a document’s
data stream before transmitting a job to the QMS Crown printer. If you
do not ensure that such features are completely disabled, the pro-
cessing of the %%Session command will be terminated, and unex-
pected results may be printed.