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- From: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040)
- Subject: Turning off output in VMS
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:00:00 GMT
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- I tried to Email this, but it got rejected, so I'm posting my reply.
-
- In article <1992Jul21.195448.7486@stortek.com>, you write...
- >
- >In a DCL Com file, how do you turn off all
- >output to the screen so that the user can not
- >see what's taking place within the com file.
- >More specifically, when you run RPT you get
- >messages to the screen saying 125 lines written
- >to filename.RPF and then when the RPF command is
- >invoked, you get more messages. I don't want the
- >user seeing them, and I don't want to put this
- >job in a batch mode. Theres got to be a way
- >to supress these messages from RPT and RPF.
-
- I'm not specifically acquainted with the software you're trying to run, but
- I'll try to answer your question. First of all you can include the line
-
- $ SET NOVERIFY
-
- To turn off other output, you can enter
-
- $ DEFINE /USER SYS$ERROR NL:
- $ DEFINE /USER SYS$OUTPUT NL:
-
- immediately before each instance of running the RPT and RPF programs, assuming
- they are executable files and not command files themselves. The effect of the
- DEFINE/USER statement only lasts until the next executable program exits.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Bill Thompson
-