Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


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>Every time the batchjob starts a process up with a STDIN & STDLIST
>redirected to a specific LDEV a REPLY is generated on the system
>console. I had this problem once before, but I can't remember how I got
>around it, that was on a classic 3k anyway.
>
>It occurred to me to create a custom profile that would somehow disable
>or bypass the reply option for these specific ldev's. However I remember
>an old HP application called MM/3000 that did exactly what I'm trying to
>do. I'm thinking that it's something simple that I'm just overlooking,
>something like a file equation or some createprocess switch somewhere,
>do I really need to reconfigure these ports?
>
>All comments will be humbly accepted.
>
>Regards,
>Michael Anderson
>Houston, Texas
>

If I remember correctly the way to disable the console request is to open
the file as an NEW file with access INOUT. I don't know off the top of my
head what the FOPEN would look like but you could achieve it with a file
equation like   :file term,new;dev=ldevno;acc=inout

Doug Werth [log in to unmask]
Beechglen Development Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio
513.922.0509