Dscribe: A Scribe Server

Abstract

This document gives a complete description of the design and implementation of Dscribe, the Scribe server. Dscribe is a program which allows users on a variety of hosts to have files processed remotely by the Scribe document preparation system. The first part of the document describes the functionality of Dscribe and the motivation for writing the program. It also gives an overview of how the program works. Later sections discuss important design issues and describe the implementation in detail.