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Aucbvax.5615 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax 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 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() is BATCH and, if so, assign SYS 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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