> I am looking for an intrinsic that I can call from a COBOL program > to determine if a printer device exists. We need to allow our users to > enter a device name on a view form. Does anyone know of such a beast?
In order to validate the users input to insure that the device that was entered is a valid spooled device (or at least currently spooled), I have used FFILEINFO item 38 and 78 as follows: [...]39_12Feb199700:44:[log in to unmask]
> The current version of ALLOWME (version xl 2.0) from the CSL displays
> the following message when executed on MPE/iX 5.5 :-
>
> *** Operating system revision level incompatiblity ***
> *** This program not checked out for new revlevel ***
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Does anyone know if there is a version of this program that runs on
> MPE/iX 5.5, we use this program to execute console commands from a
> 'automated backup job'.
>
> All help appreciated !
>
> Regards
> Brad Straiton
i don't know the program allowme, but it seems to be similar the
program allowall i have written.
allowall grants access to all operator commands.
it is based on aif and runs on mpe/ix 5.5 (and should run
on every future mpe/ix release).
attached i send a mover archive containing the program allowall.
wolfgang kinscher
