The only reason I prefer to use listspf to pre-qualify the spoolfiles instead of
Spoolf;show is one of paranoia.
With listspf, there is little risk of doing any accidental processing.

A few months after I first started using MPE (several companies and years ago),
I accidentally entered the command
SPOOLF O@;PRI=8;SHOW
meaning to display all those spoolfiles with priority of 8 and proceeded to
print off everything that had a priority of less than 8!!!  Fortunately, it
didn't cause any disasters or anything, just a huge amount of paper!!

Roger.







Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]> on 29/01/99 16:35:22

Please respond to Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]>

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cc:    (Roger Cliffe/GB/3Com)
Subject:  Re: Deleting spool files in MPE




Many have offered a solution of using LISTSPF to qualify spoolfiles using
the SELEQ parm. When satisfied that the selection criteria is good, change
it from LISTSPF to SPOOLF and add ;DELETE.

I like the following method just a little bit better for two reasons. First,
there are less keystrokes. Second, you are less prone to errors.

Use SPOOLF ;SHOW in place of LISTSPF to qualify the files and then add a
;DELETE when you are done.

:SPOOLF o@;seleq=[date<12/15/98 and filedes=$stdlist];show

...

:REDO SPOOLF
SPOOLF o@;seleq=[date<12/15/98 and filedes=$stdlist];show
>;delete
SPOOLF o@;seleq=[date<12/15/98 and filedes=$stdlist];show;delete

Doug.

Doug Werth                                     Beechglen Development Inc.
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