Chris Bartram writes:
>
>  In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > i'm wondering if anyone has tried using the shell inside of
> > a job stream?  i don't think it will work given how it
> > wants to 'talk' to stdout, but i thought i'd ask.        - d
>
> Yeah, it works. It does tend to eatup spoolfiles on our system though;
> about 50% of the time, spoolfiles which run the shell become unprintable
> and undelete-able (get a bad block error). This may(?) have been fixed in
> the latest patches (I don't know the current status). They do execute
> fine though.

Yes, sh works in batch.

I believe the patch Chris is referring to is MPEJX51B; rather than just
strictly a sh problem, this was a more general bytestream->spoolfile problem.
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