IBM S544-5285-01 - Manual (Page 24)

Figure 1. How ACIF Fits into Advanced Function Presentation
The figure shows the resources and the text data, which can be provided and used
by various AFP and AFP-compatible products. With ACIF, data and resources can
feed into ACIF for processing and can be sent to a customer-supplied archival and
retrieval system, to the spool, or to the Viewer application of AFP Workbench for
viewing.
ACIF accepts data from your application in the following formats:
AFP data
MO:DCA-P data
S/370 line-mode data
Mixed-mode data
Unformatted ASCII data (AIX only)
Put simply, ACIF can process application print data and AFP resources to produce
three types of files:
1. An AFP document file
2. An AFP resource file
3. An AFP index object file
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