Can anyone please give me an idea as to what Output spooling is. I tried looking up online but not clear about the concept yet. Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Asmitha

Hi, since SPOOL stands for "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line" it implies that jobs have to be buffered (in memory or on disk) first to be able to be executed correctly. Usually it's associated with IO from/to devices because these things operate a lot slower of course than the 'executioner', i.e print spooling (on disk) in a printer queue.
I would take 'output spooling' as a general form of buffering (in memory), which also can take place between processes, like in this series of commands
where the output of 'cat' has to be buffered first before 'sort' can operate on it's data.

Regards

Thank you so much Tyveleyn.

Regards,
Asmitha