Saclient.exe and swclient.exe

The command line programs saclient.exe and swclient.exe are provided to facilitate submitting a job to ITP/Server using TCP/IP.

Saclient submits a job to ITP/Server using TCP/IP Sockets from an ASCII environment and swclient does the same from a Unicode environment.

The source code of saclient is included in the distribution and can be found in the folder Apis/Tcp ip/s_api.h.

Starting saclient on a command line without parameters will return all options and the syntax:

Usage: saclient.exe [-s|-r|-t|-c|-e|-k|-d|-i sessionID|-a] host port JobID [parameters, starting with the name of the requested Service]

Options:

-s	Send a synchronous request
-r	Allow the client to receive files from the server [implies -s]
-t	Allow the client to send files to the server [implies -s]
-c	Confirm disconnect
-e	Enable exchange_data function calls [implies -s]
-k	Enable Verify Connection (This corresponds to the OPTION_VERIFY_CONNECTION extended attributes of the SUBMITJOB4/SUBMITJOB5 data structure). For more information, refer to the ITP/Server Administrator Help, to the subject The Advanced tab.
-d	Disables the packet size optimizations done by Nagle's algorithm. This option will improve responsiveness significantly at the cost of increased network traffic
-i	Run the job in the ITP/Server session specified by the given session ID
-a	Run the job once on every available ITP/Document Processor [disables -s]

For a complete description of these settings refer to the description of the SUBMITJOB4/SUBMITJOB5 data structure.

In addition to saclient.exe and swclient.exe, a third program called winclient.exe is provided. This is a variation of saclient.exe, created to solve specific printer switching problems with saclient.exe in an Microsoft Windows environment. It is recommended to use saclient.exe instead.