Richard Corn writes:

> When you execute an MPE IF statement, MPE generates output to STDLIST
> indicating the result of the IF statement and commands being skipped or
> not and so on. Doe anyone know of a way to suppress this output from
> the IF statment and associated statements like ELSE and ENDIF...

This sounds like an item for the FAQ.

There was thread on this from January 1997, where Jeff Vance announced
an enhancement to the HPMSGFENCE that will suppress these. Unfortunately,
this missed the "LISTF,access" patch, so it has been submitted for
MPE/iX 6.0

To find the thread, search the archives

        <http://raven.utc.edu/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?S1=hp3000-l>

with entries

        Search for:     skipped cmds

        Since.....:     1997-01-01


For now, it's a bit of a pain, but you can put the IF statement
in a command file and execute that, redirecting $STDLIST to $NULL.

For example:

        myif:
                if hpday = 2
                   xeq mysj
                else
                   xeq myst
                endif

        mysj:
                showjob status

        myst:
                showtime

If you then invoke 'myif' via

        :xeq myif > $NULL

then the "audit trail" statements do NOT appear on $STDLIST,
but the output from 'mysj' or 'myst' DOES.

This technique was suggested by Dave Gale in a similar November 1996
(disjointed) thread (mis)named MPEX command file help. (It was about
MPE command files, not MPEX.)

--Glenn Cole
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