Figure

1.

How ACIF Fits into Advanced Function Presentation

 

The

figure

shows the resources

and the text data, which can be pro

by

various

AFP and AFP-compatible

products. With ACIF, data and

resources

feed

into

ACIF for processing and can be sent to a customer-supplied

retrieval system, to the spool,

or to the Viewer application

of AFP Wo

viewing.

 

 

 

ACIF accepts data from your application in the following formats:

ŸAFP data

ŸMO:DCA-P data

Ÿ S/370 line-mode data

ŸMixed-mode data

ŸUnformatted ASCII data (AIX only)

Put simply, ACIF can process application print data and AFP resources to three types of files:

1.An AFP document file

2.An AFP resource file

3.An AFP index object file

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