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Sun Dec 27 15:27:03 1981
Printing BATCH logfiles
>From FONER@MIT-AI Sun Dec 27 15:14:15 1981
The standard technique to suppress printing of BATCH logfiles is to
assign SYS$PRINT to NL: (the null device) sometime before the run
ends.  This is even \documented/ someplace...  maybe in HEL under
SUBMIT or in the DCL manual...  someplace around there.

At my sites we do very extensive batching and always just turn off
automatic printing this way.  People's logins just check to see if
'f$mode() is BATCH and, if so, assign SYS$PRINT to NL:.

I have a related question, though, one I've never seriously persued
but one which might have a useful answer.  Whenever one tries to run a
BATCH job with a jobname longer than 8 characters (say, from a 9
character filename, the usual situation when this occurs), not only
does SHO QUE/BAT/ALL or similar show only the first eight characters,
but the BATCh logfile is ALSO truncated to the first eight characters
of the jobname!  Anybody know why this is so?  Any way to change it?
To avoid confusion, I just never submit a job from a file whose name
is longer than 8 characters... but this is a trifle silly.

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